Sweet Truth is a queen proud and mighty-- Her throne is in heaven above. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Probabilities—the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of some strong unquestioning emotion, to suspect itself,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“For the egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“In the midst of life we are in death” — how the present moment is all we can call our own for… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But to minds strongly marked by the positive and negative qualities that create severity,— strength of will, conscious rectitude of purpose, narrowness… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Here was a man who now for the first time found himself looking into the eyes of death--who was passing through one… — GEORGE ELIOT Copy Share Image
“Dorothea, with all her eagerness to know the truths of life, retained very childlike ideas about marriage. She felt sure that she… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
An ingenious web of probabilities is the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on… — George Eliot Copy Share
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — George Eliot Copy Share
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. — George Eliot Copy Share
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from… — George Eliot Copy Share
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot Copy Share
“Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out… — George Eliot Copy Share
“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex… — George Eliot Copy Share
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. — George Eliot Copy Share
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot Copy Share
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure… — George Eliot Copy Share
“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells… — George Eliot Copy Share
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial… — George Eliot Copy Share
“Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.” — George Eliot Copy Share
even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt… — George Eliot Copy Share
