George Eliot Quotes About Genius

• Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love.

  George Eliot

  Mistake, Men, Genius

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch: Top Novelist Focus”, p.654, 谷月社

• The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.

  George Eliot

  Writing, Genius

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.244, Wordsworth Editions

• You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

  George Eliot

  Girl, Men, Imagination

  "Daniel Deronda".

• Genius ... is necessarily intolerant of fetters.

  George Eliot

  Genius, Fetters

• Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Discipline, Receiving

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.222, 谷月社

• There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as well as new forces to genius and love. There are so many of us, and our lots are so different, what wonder that Nature's mood is often in harsh contrast with the great crisis of our lives?

  George Eliot

  Morning, Balance, Despair

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.316, George Eliot

• Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.

  George Eliot

  Discipline, Receiving, Genius

• Steady work turns genius to a loom.

  George Eliot

  Genius, Turns, Steady

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.3694, ShandonPress

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