Born Quote by George Eliot Download Open image “We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves” — George Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Born Character Moral Self Stupidity World
We are all born as empty vessels which can be shaped by moral values. — Jerry Springer Copy Share Image
“The great mistake of contemporary life is that we have made such a virtue of intellectual growth while almost totally ignoring the necessity of… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of. — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
We all have a moral obligation to leave this world a better place than the world that we've found. — Tim McIlrath Copy Share Image
“Humans are unique in having the astonishing capacity to extend our sympathies far beyond the here and now. through time and space, to anywhere… — Andrew Westoll Copy Share Image
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Morally as well as physically, there is only one world, and we all have to live in it — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image
One of the great challenges you will face is that a part of the world, and some in it, do not have or do… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized - perhaps too much for our own good - in… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices — Gary L. Francione 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
My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
I always thought if I was born 2000 years earlier, I would be a monk, probably carving a monastery or some giant pantheon buildings. — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I know that in the rap game you've got a lot of people, that come from poverty, was born in poverty and if it… — Jon Connor Copy Share Image
Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Must I go bound while you go free Must I love a manwho doesn't love me Must I be born with so little art… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way. — Manny Pacquiao Copy Share Image