People Talk Quote by George Eliot Download Open image ““People talk about evidence as if it could really be weighed in scales by a blind Justice.”” — George Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare People Talk
“...he's imagining himself Justice incarnate, balancing the scales. He's forgotten that Justice incarnate is not only balancing the scales but also blindfolded.” — John Knowles Copy Share Image
“...what has the weight of evidence to one person does not necessarily have the weight of evidence to another.” — Mitch Glaser Copy Share Image
“We have to judge all evidence with the same amount of scrutiny. We want truth, not confirmation of whatever our preference is.” — Lewis N. Roe Copy Share Image
“A blind Justice is merely an impartial Justice. True Justice would have eyes in the back of her head and a pair of mismatched… — Eli Ashpencea Copy Share Image
“We often fail to allow for the possibility that evidence that should be critical to our judgment is missing—what we see is all there… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“On the scales of justice, an ounce of words weighs no more than an ounce of feathers.” — Larry A. Berglas Copy Share Image
“Those who believe in justice find silence too great a burden to carry.” — Tonny K. Brown Copy Share Image
“You should never judge a person solely by the evidence of your eyes.” — Eliza Granville Copy Share Image
“Everyone talks about justice, but there can be no justice where there is no truth, and these are times when truth is seldom recognized… — Dean Koontz 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
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think when people talk about art imitating life, you're in real time. — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
“Wilem snorted."That doesn't sound suspicious at all," he said. "And you wonder why people talk about you." "I don't wonder why they talk," I… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“People talk about history and things like slavery, genocide, and religious persecution as horrors that happened in the past because we were ignorant. But… — J. Matthew Nespoli Copy Share Image
The erotic and the art historical imagination is something that gets very little play when people talk about my work, and when they rarely… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
People talk about [Bashar] Assad running Syria. He doesn't control his own country. He's down to about 20, 25 percent of the country. What… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Growing up, I was always trying to catch a great show. And that's where I learned an artist gets respect. That's what makes people… — Romeo Santos Copy Share Image
“People talk as if they knew everything, but if you dare to ask a question, they don't know anything.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Gr8 people talk about things. Small people talk about other people. and legends never talk they send sms ;) — Babloo Copy Share Image
In a way, to have whatever people talk about as "crossover success," I think it means you start making bad music. I mean, when… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
What good is talking if neither of you are really committed? If one of you had an affair or got addicted to drugs or… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image