George Eliot Quotes about Knowledge

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To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.

To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.

George Eliot

Wisdom, Knowledge, Judging

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3078, Delphi Classics

There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.

George Eliot

Sympathy, Depressing, Knowledge

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.137, Penguin

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