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

“Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.”

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

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

“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”

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

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”

“If someone doesn't care to accept you, respect you, believe in you, don't hesitate to move on and let them go. There are many who love and appreciate you just the way you are.”

“Dear Child,”

“My soul is in the sky.”

“the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind. No wise man ever acquired his wisdom in any mode but this; nor is it in the nature of human intellect to become wise in any other manner.”

“No one can surely know what knowledge is without the presence of truth.”

“I'd rather have less time than I think, than less think than I have time.”