George Eliot Quotes about Vision

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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

George Eliot

Self, Objectivity, Vision

George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.386, Xist Publishing

Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.

George Eliot

Vision, Use, Sensibility

"Complete Works of George Eliot".

Quick souls have their intensest life in the first anticipatory sketch of what may or will be, and the pursuit of their wish is the pursuit of that paradisiacal vision which only impelled them, and is left farther and farther behind, vanishing forever even out of hope in the moment which is called success.

George Eliot

Forever, Soul, Vision

George Eliot (1869). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.49

Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.

George Eliot

Self, Vision, Height

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.165, Booklassic

Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves.

George Eliot

Dream, Men, Vision

Robert Coles, George Eliot, George Orwell, Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Trollope (2007). “Political Leadership: Stories of Power and Politics from Literature and Life”, p.19, Modern Library