George Eliot Quotes About Mistakes

• 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

• Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

  George Eliot

  Mistake, Mean, Errors

  'Scenes of Clerical Life' (1858) 'Janet's Repentance' ch. 25

• Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls have fallen by mistake; but the sense of a stupendous self and an insignificant world may have its consolations. Lydgate's discontent was much harder to bear; it was the sense that there was a grand existence in thought and effective action lying around him, while his self was being narrowed into the miserable isolation of egoistic fears, and vulgar anxieties for events that might allay such fears.

  George Eliot

  Lying, Mistake, Self

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.597, Xist Publishing

• And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

  George Eliot

  Hilarious, Mistake, Males

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.78, Booklassic

• Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.

  George Eliot

  Mistake, Animal, Men

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.388, Penguin

• Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

  George Eliot

  Mistake, Atheism, Form

  'Middlemarch' (1871-2) bk. 1, ch. 10

• Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

  George Eliot

  Mistake, Giving, Alive

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.483, Penguin

• There is no compensation for the woman who feels that the chief relation of her life has been no more than a mistake. She has lost her crown. The deepest secret of human blessedness has half whispered itself to her, and then forever passed her by.

  George Eliot

  Mistake, Forever, Secret

  George Eliot (2016). “Romola: Top Novelist Focus”, p.434, 谷月社

• autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.

  George Eliot

  Mistake, Men, World

  George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.654

• But let the wise be warned against too great readiness to explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.

  George Eliot

  Wise, Mistake, Source

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

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