George Eliot Quotes
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
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The neurotic ... is not the voluntary happy seeker of truth, but the forced, unhappy finder of it.
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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?
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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...
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Accept no substitutes; I bring truth to the youth.
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He alone is aware of the truth, and if all men were aware of it, there would be an end of life. In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. But his kingship is kingship over nothing. It brings no powers and privileges, only loss of faith and exhaustion of the power to act. Its world is a world without values.
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If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.
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Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense; Truth is apt to be neither.
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If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
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I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.
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Although I had arrived in total darkness the light of truth at once burst upon my mind and I perceived most clearly that the republicans had overreached themselves.
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When I forget my sovereign, may my God forget me.
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The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
