It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. Knowledge, through patient and frugal centuries, enlarges discovery and makes record of it; Ignorance, wanting its day's dinner, lights a fire with the record, and gives a flavour to its one roast with the burnt souls of many generations.
George EliotGod, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.
George EliotWe have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.
George Eliot