Quotes About Truth

When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.

They read all the books, but they can't find the answers.

So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter.

Truth be told, our modern education systems crush the very spirit they claim to instill.

The truth is mightier than eloquence, the Spirit greater than genius, faith more than education.

I don't teach lies, but I do not teach all I know is true.

A good brain ain't diddley, if you don't have the facts.

I don't like the word transparency; cold dead glass is transparent. I prefer education or understanding, which are more human.

We have created an educational system, funded throughout the country by taxpayer dollars, that systematically turns our children away from the truth that makes them free.

Enlightenment is light.

All topics should be studied through the lens of the Gospel.

Ignorance is the greatest slave master in the universe.

A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

The foundation of worship in the heart is not emotional...it is theological.

It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.

The closer you stay to emotional authenticity and people, character authenticity, the less you can go wrong. That's how I feel now, no matter what you're doing.

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.

Transformation occurs when existing solutions, assumed truths and past decisions are exposed as unrealistic and self-defeating.

You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it.

I'm so uncomfortable, especially in emotional situations, having to say sentences that don't feel right. As an actor - or really, as any kind of person sensitive to it.

Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to me. Goodbye.' When they see wickedness, they walk away.

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.

Emotional truths can sometimes be conveyed more effectively, more compellingly, through fiction.