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“The truth is that art does not teach; it makes you feel, and any teaching that may arise from the feeling is an extra, and must not be stressed too much. In the modern world, and in Canada as much as anywhere, we are obsessed with the notion that to think is the highest achievement of mankind, but we neglect the fact that thought untouched by feeling is thin, delusive, treacherous stuff.”

Source: Fortune, My Foe and Eros at Breakfast

“Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.”

People Life Inspirational Truth Teach Kindness Share Truth Is Everyday Everyday Life Goodness And Kindness Contentment And Peace Contentment Peace

Book:Khalil The Heretic

Source: Khalil The Heretic

“If we love Him infinitely more than we do ourselves, we make an unconditional sacr Here it is that the Spirit teaches us all truth; for all truth is eminently contained in this sacrifice of love, where the soul strips itself of every thing to present it to God.”

Ifs Soul Spirit Teach Sacrifice Truth Is Unconditional Love Sacrifice

Author:Francois Fenelon

“To cultivate the intellect is therefore a religious duty; and when this truth is fairly recognized by men, the religion which teaches that the intellect should be distrusted and that it should be subservient to faith, will inevitably fall.”

Men Should Fall Religious Teach Atheism Duty Truth Is Intellect Positive Atheism Subservient

Book:The Martyrdom of Man

Source: The Martyrdom of Man

“Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.”

Lying Fiction Teach Truth Is Charm Truest Fables

Book:The Poems of Abraham Cowley ...

Source: The Poems of Abraham Cowley ...

“Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.”

Should Years Mind Believe Children Pain Accepting Teach Fantasy Taught Terrible Truth Is Miracle Tragedy Myth Libertarian Poetic Superstitions Terrible Things Fables Relieved

Author:Hypatia

“The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because thousands of humane, caring people work in schools as teachers and aides and administrators, but the abstract logic of the institution overwhelms their individual contributions.”

People School Order Individual Teach Teacher Mystery Truth Is Logic Institutions Caring Abstract Contribution Humane Administrators

Book:Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

“I taught public school for 26 years, but I just can't do it anymore. For years I asked the school board to let me teach a curriculum that doesn't hurt kids, but they always had other fish to fry. If you hear of a job where I don't have to hurt kids to make a living, let me know. The truth is that schools don't really teach anything, but blind obedience.”

Ifs Knows Years Kids School Jobs Hurt Teach Taught Truth Is Let Me Blind Fishes Obedience Boards Public School Curriculum School Board Blind Obedience

Author:John Taylor Gatto

“Being in church so often, spending those hours sitting in front of a highly symbolic array of objects, hearing those beautiful texts - it teaches a kid that there are important truths beyond the literal ones, and that we have ways to access those truths that are, let's say, super-rational.”

Way Important Kids Beautiful Hours Church Teach Fronts Objects Truth Is Sitting Hearing Spending Access Rational Symbolic Literal

Author:George Saunders

“My experiences of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them nor be indisposed to serve them: nor, in spite of failures which I lament, of errors which I now see and acknowledge, or the present aspect of affairs, do I despair of the future. The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope.”

Thinking Men Mean Long Desire Humanity Individual Teach Progress Truth Is Despair Aspect Errors Affair Wave Acknowledge Spite March Immense Providence Discouraged Impatient Advancing Lament

Author:Robert E. Lee

“One of the hardest things to teach a child is that truth is more important than consequences.”

Children Important Wisdom Teach Truth Is Consequence Hardest Hardest Thing

Author:Orlando Aloysius Battista