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

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

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

“To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.”

“Our deeds determine us, as long as we determine our deeds”

“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”

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

“In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.”

“Literature, like magic, has always been about the handling of secrets, about the pain, the destruction, and the marvelous liberation that can result when they are revealed. Telling the truth when the truth matters most is almost always a frightening prospect. If a writer doesn't give away secrets, his own or those of the people he loves; if she doesn't court disapproval, reproach, and general wrath, whether of friends, family, or party apparatchiks; if the writer submits his work to an internal censor long before anyone else can get their hands on it, the result is pallid, inanimate, a lump of earth.”

“I'm lying, yes, but why do you force me to give a linear explanation; linear explanations are almost always lies.”

“Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident.”

“My discourse leads to the truth; the mind is great and guided by this teaching is able to arrive at some understanding. When the mind has understood all things and found them to be in harmony with what has been expounded by the teachings, it is faithful and comes to rest in that beautiful faith.”