Eliot

Famous quotes containing the word eliot:

    But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    ... pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)