George Eliot Quotes About Ignorance

• Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

  George Eliot

  Ignorance, Literature, Hours

  George Eliot (2011). “Daniel Deronda (丹尼爾的半生緣)”, p.575, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

• It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. Knowledge, through patient and frugal centuries, enlarges discovery and makes record of it; Ignorance, wanting its day's dinner, lights a fire with the record, and gives a flavour to its one roast with the burnt souls of many generations.

  George Eliot

  Ignorance, Discovery, Fire

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.257, George Eliot

• It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.

  George Eliot

  Ignorance, Common, Hours

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.194, Oxford Paperbacks

• Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

  George Eliot

  Sports, Ignorance, Knowledge

  George Eliot (1876). “Daniel Deronda”, p.38

• In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.

  George Eliot

  Strong, Pain, Taken

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.31, Oxford Paperbacks

• All our ignorance brings us closer to death.

  George Eliot

  Ignorance

• Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.

  George Eliot

  Ignorance, May, Pills

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.29

• It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.

  George Eliot

  Ignorance, Fighting, Fog

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.297, Penguin

• Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

  George Eliot

  Children, Pain, Ignorance

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.109, ShandonPress

• The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.

  George Eliot

  Beautiful, Fall, Ignorance

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.360, 谷月社

• We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Ignorance, Imagination

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.588, Wordsworth Editions

• Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

  George Eliot

  Ignorance, Giving, Range

  Daniel Deronda II xiii (p. 100)

• The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

  George Eliot

  Ignorance, Acquaintance, Persons

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.93, 谷月社

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