Mind Quotes by George Eliot

To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.

— George Eliot

Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.

— George Eliot

I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.

— George Eliot

In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.

— George Eliot

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

— George Eliot

Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing…

— George Eliot

I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.

— George Eliot

The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great…

— George Eliot

“And your mind is a sort of world to me; you can tell me all I want to know. I think I…

— George Eliot

Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence.

— George Eliot

But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to…

— George Eliot

In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from…

— George Eliot

Folks as have no mind to be o' use have allays the luck to be out o' the road when there's anything…

— George Eliot

Yes, Isaac Taylor, who has just published 'The World of Mind,' is the Isaac Taylor, author of the 'Natural History of Enthusiasm.'…

— George Eliot

Nice distinctions are troublesome. It is so much easier to say that a thing is black, than to discriminate the particular shade…

— George Eliot

“it seemed to him as if he were beholding in a magic panorama a future where he himself was sliding into that…

— George Eliot

“How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness,…

— George Eliot

When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much.…

— George Eliot

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you…

— George Eliot

I've had my say out, and I shall be the' easier for't all my life. There's no pleasure i' living, if you're…

— George Eliot

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined…

— George Eliot

For character too is a process and an unfoldingamong our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little…

— George Eliot

Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords…

— George Eliot

But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable; and we all know…

— George Eliot

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of…

— George Eliot

Looking at your life as a debt may seem the dreariest view of things at a distance; but it cannot really be…

— George Eliot

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles, from the desperate to the sheepish;…

— George Eliot

I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering…

— George Eliot

I don't remember ever being see-saw, when I'd made my mind up that a thing was wrong. It takes the taste out…

— George Eliot

“He seemed to weave, like the spider, from pure impulse, without reflection. Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends in this way to…

— George Eliot

The mind that is too ready at contempt and reprobation is, I may say, as a clenched fist that can give blows,…

— George Eliot

I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's…

— George Eliot

There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of…

— George Eliot

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion…

— George Eliot

It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are…

— George Eliot

In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded…

— George Eliot

As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple…

— George Eliot

I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents…

— George Eliot

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little…

— George Eliot

“The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under…

— George Eliot