George Eliot Quote

If gold rusts, what then can iron do?

We must steel ourselves against utopias and be content with a slightly better state.

No one really remembers anything five minutes after it happens.

Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see each other in

Let nothing human be considered sacred. Let nothing human be considered divine.

Children understood at a very young age that doing nothing was an expression of power. Doing nothing was a choice swollen with omnipotence. It was, in fact, godly.And this, she now realized, was the r...

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

You make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.

Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he has every right to discard for another one, of improved design, after the...

When two men of science disagree, they do not invoke the secular arm; they wait for further evidence to decide the issue, because, as men of science, they know that neither is infallible. But when two...