Fetters Quote by George Eliot Download Open image “Genius ... is necessarily intolerant of fetters.” — George Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fetters Genius Intelligence
Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its way. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I consider myself a genius because, when you talk about anything and everything, you a genius to me. It's just about makin' it fire… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
I think that genius comes not just from having great mental processing power. It comes from being able to, as Steve Jobs' ad said,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Genius simply cannot be reduced to a set of rules for anyone to follow. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near. — Fritz Kreisler Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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 Image
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“[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 Image
“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 Image
“... 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 Image
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 Image
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I like to foster an atmosphere on set of collaboration and openness and risk taking. The beauty is when you have such brilliantly talented… — Dan Mazer Copy Share Image
The wise say that it is not an iron, wooden or fiber fetter which is a strong one, but the besotted hankering after trinkets,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
... a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
True, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
There is a Restlessness springing from the consciousness of power not fully utilized, which must be present wherever there is unused power of whatever… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
Whoever makes love grow boundless, and sets his mind for seeing the end of birth, his fetters are worn thin. If he loves even… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A warlike nation like the Germans, without either cities, letters, arts, or money, found some compensation for this savage state in the enjoyment of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
