George Eliot Quotes About Habits

• Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords with Scripture; they do not search for facts as such, but for facts that will bear out their doctrine. It is easy to see that this mental habit blunts not only the perception of truth, but the sense of truthfulness, and that the man whose faith drives him into fallacies treads close upon the precipice of falsehood.

  George Eliot

  Men, Perception, Mind

  George Eliot (2016). “The Essays of George Eliot: Top Novelist Focus”, p.45, 谷月社

• A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

  George Eliot

  Love, Life, Giving

  George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.515

• 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

  Men, Compassion, Feelings

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.406, Penguin

• Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly

  George Eliot

  Silly, Men, Unhappy

• Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot but regard as a being amiable without meaning it.

  George Eliot

  Way, Offensive, Habit

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.57

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