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Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot
Ignorance, Giving, Range
Daniel Deronda II xiii (p. 100)

It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.

George Eliot
Ignorance, Common, Hours
George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.194, Oxford Paperbacks

It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.

George Eliot
Ignorance, Fighting, Fog
George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.297, Penguin

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.

George Eliot
Ignorance, May, Pills
George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.29

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

George Eliot
Ignorance, Literature, Hours
George Eliot (2011). “Daniel Deronda (丹尼爾的半生緣)”, p.575, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

All our ignorance brings us closer to death.

George Eliot
Ignorance

It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. Knowledge, through patient and frugal centuries, enlarges discovery and makes record of it; Ignorance, wanting its day's dinner, lights a fire with the record, and gives a flavour to its one roast with the burnt souls of many generations.

George Eliot
Ignorance, Discovery, Fire
George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.257, George Eliot

Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

George Eliot
Children, Pain, Ignorance
George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.109, ShandonPress

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

George Eliot
Sports, Ignorance, Knowledge
George Eliot (1876). “Daniel Deronda”, p.38

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

George Eliot
Ignorance, Acquaintance, Persons
George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.93, 谷月社

We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.

George Eliot
Inspirational, Ignorance, Imagination
George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.588, Wordsworth Editions

The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.

George Eliot
Beautiful, Fall, Ignorance
George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.360, 谷月社

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