Quotes About Truth

It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.

Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves.

In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.

I heard many discourses which were good for the soul, but I could not discover in the case of any one of the teachers that his life was worthy of his words.

Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.

False teachers of the Way of life use flowery words.

More important than finding the teacher is finding and following the truth of the teaching.

You are not given the light by anyone—not even by a spiritual teacher. You are that light.

There are a lot of people who call themselves teachers or leaders, but they're really just propagandists.

There is a temptation for the writer or the teacher of Church history to want to tell everything, whether it is worthy or faith promoting or not. Some things that are true are not very useful.

My high school science teacher once told me that much of Genesis is false. But since my high school teacher did not prove he was God by rising from the dead, I'm going to believe Jesus instead.

You are the mirror of divine beauty.

For my teachers, unfortunately, certain things were, as they are for you, only tales of power

When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, instead of lying, write it down, because if you write it down, it's not a lie anymore; it's fiction.

The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell you without takinga long hard look at it yourselves.

The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantelpiece forever.

Emptiness is that which frees us from religiosity and leads us to true spirituality.

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.

An enlightened person doesn't know it all. Enlightenment simply means walking beyond this and all worlds into nirvana, which is beyond knowledge and ignorance.

I'm very grateful to have my kids in my life; they're my greatest teachers. But to pretend it's always easy is just not really true.

Perhaps teachers should be instructed in a program where they lie to their students on a regular basis to sharpen up their skills at detecting lies.

If everyone will try to understand the core of his own religion and adhere to it, and will not allow false teachers to dictate to him, there will be no room left for quarrelling.

I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true.

There is a kind of misguided pity that deals gently with false teachers at the expense of their victims.