Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.

Quote by George Eliot

Topics: Conscience Quotes

Kisses honeyed by oblivion.

Kisses honeyed by oblivion.

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems...

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems...

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have...

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have...

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling...

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling...

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing....

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing....

If Darwin's theory should be true, it will not degrade man; it will simply raise...

If Darwin's theory should be true, it will not degrade man; it will simply raise...

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are...

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are...

The reward of one duty done is the power to fulfill another

The reward of one duty done is the power to fulfill another

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of...

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of...

An age at which many men are not quite common - at which they are...

An age at which many men are not quite common - at which they are...

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk...

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk...

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the...

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the...

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by...

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by...

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

Breed is stronger than pasture.

Breed is stronger than pasture.