George Eliot Quotes
Best The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton Quotes by George Eliot
The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton Quotes
“But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An undefecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into non-entity.”
“Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.”
“Slander may be defeated by equanimity; but courageous thoughts will not pay your baker's hill, and fortitude is nowhere considered legal tender for beef.”
“The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.”
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“Schools, especially good ones…that so emphasize student voice, teach us to value opinion. This is a great deception. Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge; it requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge, according to George Eliot, is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound, purpose‐larger‐than‐the‐self kind of understanding.”
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