Quotes by Eliot, George

Those who trust us educate us. >>

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous wi >>

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plan >>

Quotations about Perspective

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem a >>

When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage t >>

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye. >>

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience.

Eliot, George