Quote

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

George Eliot

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

George Eliot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1819
Born: November 22
Died: 1880
Died: December 22
Editor
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Translator
Writer
Mary Anne Evans
Mary Ann Evans
Marian Evans
Mary Anne Evans Cross
Mary Anne Cross
Like
Friction
Generate
Repetition
Heat
Likely
Instead
Progress
Literature
Iteration

More quotes by George Eliot

Image
The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence.
George Eliot
Image
May every soul that touches mine - be it the slightest contact - get there from some good some little grace one kindly thought one aspiration yet unfelt one bit of courage for the darkening sky one gleam of faith to brave the thickening ills of life one glimpse of brighter skies beyond the gathering mists - to make this life worthwhile.
George Eliot
Image
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
George Eliot
Image
Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . ... Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
George Eliot
Image
As leopard feels at home with leopard.
George Eliot
Image
Awful Night! Ancestral mystery of mysteries.
George Eliot
Image
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
George Eliot
Image
The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.
George Eliot
Image
It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.
George Eliot
Image
After all, the true seeing is within.
George Eliot
Image
I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.
George Eliot
Image
Don't let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God alone inflicts it. The best of us are but poor wretches, just saved from shipwreck. Can we feel anything but awe and pity when we see a fellow-passenger swallowed by the waves?
George Eliot
Image
Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.
George Eliot
Image
Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin?
George Eliot
Image
Husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.
George Eliot
Image
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
George Eliot
Image
Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning.
George Eliot
Image
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
George Eliot
Image
We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.
George Eliot
Image
There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.
George Eliot