Truth Quotes by George Eliot

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

— George Eliot

Particular lies may speak a general truth.

— George Eliot

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

— George Eliot

Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.

— George Eliot

There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.

— George Eliot

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

— George Eliot

Sweet Truth is a queen proud and mighty-- Her throne is in heaven above.

— George Eliot

The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.

— George Eliot

The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.

— George Eliot

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and…

— George Eliot

Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

— George Eliot

An ingenious web of probabilities is the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.

— George Eliot

Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.

— George Eliot

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

— George Eliot

“Probabilities—the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.”

— George Eliot

It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that…

— George Eliot

It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of some strong unquestioning emotion, to suspect itself,…

— George Eliot

If Darwin's theory should be true, it will not degrade man; it will simply raise the whole animal world into dignity, leaving…

— George Eliot

“Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult…Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to…

— George Eliot

Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at…

— George Eliot

“Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very…

— George Eliot

“For the egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more…

— George Eliot

It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something…

— George Eliot

For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of…

— George Eliot

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and…

— George Eliot

“In the midst of life we are in death” — how the present moment is all we can call our own for…

— George Eliot

I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering…

— George Eliot

“But to minds strongly marked by the positive and negative qualities that create severity,— strength of will, conscious rectitude of purpose, narrowness…

— George Eliot

Here was a man who now for the first time found himself looking into the eyes of death--who was passing through one…

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“Dorothea, with all her eagerness to know the truths of life, retained very childlike ideas about marriage. She felt sure that she…

— George Eliot

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact…

— George Eliot

There's truth in wine, and there may be some in gin and muddy beer; but whether it's truth worth my knowing, is…

— George Eliot

Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves.

— George Eliot