George Eliot Quotes about Fear

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To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever.

To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever.

George Eliot

Fear, Intellectual, Examination

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6448, Delphi Classics

We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.

George Eliot

Fear, Fearless, Danger

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.942, Delphi Classics

Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.

George Eliot

Fear, Stronger, Probability

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.450, Penguin

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

George Eliot

Perseverance, Fear, Failure

George Eliot (1997). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.365, Wordsworth Editions

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

George Eliot

Fear, Acceptance, Self

George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.32