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Psychology Quotes by George Eliot

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George Eliot writes that the mind grows hidden shoots in spring, like tiny blades pushing through soil. She says the quality of a person shows when they try to speak well. She also warns that a narrow mind cannot see a subject from many different angles.

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“For the most glutinously indefinite minds enclose some hard grains of habit...”

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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.

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

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

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

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

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

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A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous…

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

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

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“These irregularities of judgment, I imagine, are found even in riper minds than Mary Garth's: our”

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

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The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what…

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

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

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“Having made his clerical toilet with due care in the morning, he was prepared only for those amenities of life which were…

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“Religious doctrines had taken no hold on Hetty’s mind. She was one of those numerous people who have had godfathers and godmothers,…

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

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“A man conscious of enthusiasm for worthy aims is sustained under petty hostilities by the memory of great workers who had to…

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“There was no keenness in the eyes; they seemed rather to be shedding love than making observations; they had the liquid look…

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“Let a prejudice be bequeathed, carried in the air, adopted by hearsay, caught in through the eye,–however it may come, these minds…

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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…

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“Plotting covetousness and deliberate contrivance, in order to compass a selfish end, are nowhere abundant but in the world of the dramatist:…

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

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

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The idea of duty, that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self, is to the moral…

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“Conceive the condition of the human mind if all propositions whatsoever were self-evident except one, which was to become self-evident at the…

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“But to minds strongly marked by the positive and negative qualities that create severity,— strength of will, conscious rectitude of purpose, narrowness…

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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…

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“If you could only speak the devil fair enough, he might save you the cost of the doctor. Such strange lingering echoes…

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

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“A vigorous young mind not overbalanced by passion, finds a good in making acquaintance with life, and watches its own powers with…

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

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

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

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

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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…

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

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“A man's mind must be continually expanding and shrinking between the whole human horizon and the horizon of an object-glass.”

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“But, for the point of wisdom, I would choose / To know the mind that stirs between the wings / Of bees...”

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There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.

But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on…

Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.

Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness.

The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from…

“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range…

“Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out…

“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex…

What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.

“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure…

“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells…

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial…

“Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.”

even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt…