George Eliot Quotes About Human Nature

• In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.

  George Eliot

  Human Nature, Exception, Humans

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.298

• The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.

  George Eliot

  Hate, Men, Yoke

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.157

• Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth.

  George Eliot

  Religious, Powerful, Growth

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.4704, ShandonPress

• No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

  George Eliot

  Business, Achievement, Done

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.385

• I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Understanding, Experience

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1192, ShandonPress

• The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.

  George Eliot

  Triumph, Human Nature, Creeds

  George Eliot (2015). “Eliot's Essays: Top Essays”, p.64, 谷月社

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