Grant folly's prayers that hinder folly's wish, And serve the ends of wisdom. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Probabilities—the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple pity that will not forsake us — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But, for the point of wisdom, I would choose / To know the mind that stirs between the wings / Of bees...” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“She was one of those women who are never handsome till they are old, and she had had the wisdom to embrace… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
...Though there's reasons in things as nobody knows on---- that's pretty much what I've made out; yet some folks are so wise… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The only conscience we can trust to is the massive sense of wrong in a class, and the best wisdom that will… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Just a month from this day, on the twentieth of September, 1850, I shall be sitting in this chair, in this study,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“A man carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
the mysterious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims ... to lace ourselves up in formulas of that… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“It is an old story, that men sell themselves to the tempter, and sign a bond with their blood, because it is… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“If you think a lad of thirteen would have been so childish, you must be an exceptionally wise man, who, although you… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“You will hardly demand that his confidence should have a basis in external facts; such confidence, we know, is something less coarse… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“All people of broad, strong sense have an instinctive repugnance to the men of maxims; because such people early discern that the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“She could make dream-worlds of her own – but no dream-world would satisfy her now. She wanted some explanation of this hard,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“All people of broad, strong sense have an instinctive repugnance to the men of maxims; because such people early discern that the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on… — George Eliot Copy Share
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — George Eliot Copy Share
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. — George Eliot Copy Share
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from… — George Eliot Copy Share
“[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… — George Eliot Copy Share
“Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out… — George Eliot Copy Share
“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex… — George Eliot Copy Share
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. — George Eliot Copy Share
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot Copy Share
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure… — George Eliot Copy Share
“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells… — George Eliot Copy Share
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial… — George Eliot Copy Share
“Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.” — George Eliot Copy Share
even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt… — George Eliot Copy Share
