Wisdom Quote by George Eliot — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult....Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings -- much harder than to say something fine about them which is”

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

““Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.'”

“Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.”

“Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.”

“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.”

“Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.”

“No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”

“Only wise men look for new wisdom.”

“There are stories we tell to teach, and others whose horror outweighs their usefulness, so we bury them in the dust of the past, sparing those who come after their weight.” — The Hunter”

“Our entire life worth's less than one moment of the absolute's truth vanity.”

“If I stress about a goal, I won't remember to find the way to get there.”