Quote by George Eliot
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. -

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. – George Eliot

Other quotes by George Eliot

Tis God gives skill, but not without mens hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivariuss violins without Antonio. – George Eliot

Category:
Violins
Read Quote

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

Category:
Science
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Knowledge
category

Knowledge is the prime need of the hour. – Mary McLeod Bethune

Category:
Knowledge

I dont keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself. – Natalia Makarova

Category:
Knowledge

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. – Plato

Category:
Knowledge

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population. – Thomas B. Macaulay

Category:
Knowledge

Random Quotes

I made some mistakes in drama. I thought the drama was when the actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries. – Frank Capra

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear. – George W. Bush

Category:
Fear

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue. – William Blake

Category:
Liberty

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we dont know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an oxs or bears, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there. – Meister Eckhart

Category:
inspirational