George Eliot Quotes

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

George Eliot

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• I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Truth
  • History
  • Wish

• My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Truth
  • Friends
  • Same

• The truth is, if we have our own reasons for doing something - reasons that we endorse - we're more likely to do it; we're more likely to stick with it.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Truth
  • Doing
  • Truth Is

• It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Book
  • Truth

• I don't want to be disrespectful to people who are incredible at their craft, but the truth is, if I didn't get paid for it, I wouldn't act. The best-paying jobs are usually the worst films. You're a very small cog in a big machine.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Truth
  • Small

• Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lie

• Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Truth
  • Moral
  • Truth Is

• Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.

  

  Edmond Halley
  • Truth
  • Earth
  • Problem

• You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Author

• I film normal-life subjects in natural settings that some people would consider uncinematic. But what I want to show is nature itself, as the truth of life.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • People
  • Life
  • Truth

• All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Truth
  • Understand
  • Easy

• To expect truth to come from thinking signifies that we mistake the need to think with the urge to know.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • Mistake

• Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • People
  • Truth
  • True

• Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Truth
  • Opinion
  • Religion

• The neurotic ... is not the voluntary happy seeker of truth, but the forced, unhappy finder of it.

  

  Otto Rank
  • Truth
  • Happy

• Wasn’t that their natural right, to know the truth so as to be able to let the truth lead them to do good or evil, as they chose?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Evil

• When soon I sail from here, I may again run into such a storm as the one in Kvasefjord. But this time I shall clearly understand that it is not a play in the theatre, but it is death. and it seems too that then, in the last moment before we go down, I can in in all truth be yours...

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Time
  • May
  • Truth

• Accept no substitutes; I bring truth to the youth.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Truth
  • Accept
  • Substitutes

• No more slave States and no more slave territory.

  

  Salmon Portland Chase
  • Slavery
  • Slave
  • States

• Every man's powers have relation to some kind of work; and whenever he finds that kind of work which he can do best--that to which his powers are best adapted--he finds that which will give him the best development, and that by which he can best build up, or make, his manhood.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Up
  • Work
  • Men

• In terms of the historical record, I should also point out that there is no account in any ancient source whatsoever about King Herod slaughtering children in or around Bethlehem, or anyplace else. No other author, biblical or otherwise, mentions this event. Is it, like John's account of Jesus' death, a detail made up by Matthew in order to make some kind of theological point?

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Children
  • Theology
  • Jesus' Death

• The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.

  

  James J. Gibson
  • Perception

• I have absolutely no interest in rock and roll. I'm just being David Bowie. Mick Jagger is rock and roll. I mean, I go out and my music is roughly the format of rock and roll, I use the chord changes of rock and roll, but I don't feel I'm a rock and roll artist. I'd be a terrible rock artist, absolutely ghastly.

  

  David Bowie
  • Interest
  • Terrible
  • Jagger

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

  

  George Eliot
  • Truth
  • Track
  • Nostril