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George Eliot
(22 Nov 1819 - 22 Dec 1880)
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Science Quotes by George Eliot (11 quotes)
George Eliot at age 30
Portrait by Alexandre-Louis-François d'Albert-Durade (source)
Portrait by Alexandre-Louis-François d'Albert-Durade (source)
Animals are such agreeable friends; they ask no questions, pass no criticisms.
— George Eliot
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact.
— George Eliot
Breed is stronger than pasture.
— George Eliot
Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings—much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.
— George Eliot
Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.
— George Eliot
I’ve been turning it over in after-dinner speeches, but it looks awkward—it’s not what people are
used to—it wants a good deal of Latin to make it go down.
— George Eliot
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
— George Eliot
It’s but little good you’ll do a-watering the last year’s crop.
— George Eliot
Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.
— George Eliot
Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
— George Eliot
When God makes his presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
— George Eliot