Quotes by Eliot, George

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know >>

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up >>

In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a >>

Quotations about Knowledge

Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained e >>

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simpli >>

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, be >>

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.

Eliot, George