George Eliot Quotes

There is not a bird that flies by without our knowledge.

My Noble Intelligencer …. My Ubiquitous Eyes

Foreknowledge is power.

There never yet has been a country which became powerful without knowledge. A man by his own strength alone cannot successfully combat a tiger, but by his intelligence, he can devise means to entrap him.

We've got to fool the fools, and plan the plans. We must rule the rules, got to stand the stands.

Those who have the most cunning affect all their lives to condemn cunning; that they may make use of it on some great occasion, and to some great end.

For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

Athena always, always has a plan.

But when the fox hath once got in his nose, He'll soon find means to make the body follow.

Think hard before you begin, then enter the work.

The devil knew what he did when he made men politic; he crossed himself by it.

War makes monsters of men, you once said to me Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much knowledge of your fellow man, too much knowledge of his weakness, his pathetic greed and vanity, and how laughably easy it is to control him.

A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.

The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.

And she’s very clever, Peeta. Well, she was. Until you outfoxed her

Wait," said Butler. "Just wait, Holly. Artemis has a plan." He squinted through the green dome. "What is your plan, Artemis?" All Artemis could do was smile and shrug.

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.

I keep my enemies close/ I give 'em enough rope/ They put themselves in the air/ I just kick away the chair.

You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

A game of secret, cunning stratagems, in which only the fools who are fated to lose reveal their true aims or motives - even to themselves.

Took awhile, got the jokers out of the deck now, I'm holdin all the cards and niggas wanna play chess now

An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.

She turned to Frizz. "So you understand the problem? You can't let Tally know about Radical Honesty. There's no telling what she'll do if she finds out you could ruin her plans." Frizz's eyebrows rose. "So let me get this straight, Aya-chan. You want me, a person who can't lie, to lie about the fact that I can't lie?" "We need another plan," Hiro said.

Whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man - whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyse the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation.