George Eliot Quotes About Judging

• Don't judge a book by its cover

  George Eliot

  Book, Haste Makes Waste, Judging

• Hear Everything and judge for yourself

  George Eliot

  Judging, Judgement

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.295, Penguin

• But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

  George Eliot

  Heartbreak, Judging, Feelings

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.180, Penguin

• To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.

  George Eliot

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Judging

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3078, Delphi Classics

• We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.

  George Eliot

  Knowing, Judging, Judgment

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1275, Wordsworth Editions

• Lord! Thou art with Thy people still; they see Thee in the night-watches, and their hearts burn within them as Thou talkest with them by the way. And Thou art near to those that have not known Thee; open their eyes that they may see Thee--see Thee weeping over them, and saying, "Ye will not come unto me that ye might have life"--see Thee hanging on the cross and saying, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do"--see Thee as Thou wilt come again in Thy glory to judge them at the last. Amen.

  George Eliot

  Art, Prayer, Father

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.26, George Eliot

• We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly.

  George Eliot

  Judging, Secret, Sin

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3684, Delphi Classics

• But how little we know what would make paradise for our neighbours! We judge from our own desires, and our neighbours themselves are not always open enough even to throw out a hint of theirs.

  George Eliot

  Judging, Desire, Paradise

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.720, Wordsworth Editions

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