Quote by George Eliot
We must not inquire too curiously into motives... They are apt to

We must not inquire too curiously into motives… They are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light. – George Eliot

Other quotes by George Eliot

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know. – George Eliot

Category:
best
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Curiosity
category

A sense of curiosity is natures original school of education. – Smiley Blanton

Category:
Curiosity

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it. – Sudie Back

Category:
Curiosity

Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted. – Francis Beaumont

Category:
Curiosity

Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never tire of it. If we do tire of it, if we lose our curiosity, we have lost something of infinite value, because to a high degree it is curiosity that gives meaning and savour to life. – Robertson Davies

Category:
Curiosity

Random Quotes

Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they dont wanna move out. They dont want to and they dont have the means to sustain it. Thats where my heart is and thats what I think about all the time. – Ice Cube

Category:
Family

At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point. – Roh Moo-hyun

Category:
History

Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity. – Walter Benjamin

Category:
Communism

A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one mans approval. – Helen Rowland