George Eliot Quotes About Certainty

• 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

• You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only es

  George Eliot

  Disappointment, Lying, Forever

  George Eliot (2006). “Daniel Deronda Volume Iii EasyRead Editi”, p.38, ReadHowYouWant.com

• Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?

  George Eliot

  Play, Needs, Inward

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.243, 谷月社

• Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.

  George Eliot

  Integrity, Mind, Elements

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.126, Wordsworth Editions

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