Anne Sullivan Quotes

When you have children, there is no room for lies, no room for anything but the truth. Anything other than that is a bad example, I believe.

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

We really teach ourselves. If you want to learn, you will always find someone to learn from, be they dead or alive, great or unknown. You learn from everything you see and hear around you - if you are willing to pay attention.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.

We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.

When I say that children should be told about sex, I do not mean that they should be told only the bare physiological facts; they should be told whatever they wish to know. There should be no attempt to represent adults as more virtuous than they are, or sex as occurring only in marriage. There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them, and feel justified in lying to them.

I had great mentors in my parents who always sought to understand the world around them. And they would push me to really think things through.

You have to be honest, even when you are upset with your child. Your intentions must be clear. You must never lie to your child.

Being a parent you want to be strong for your kids and ninety percent of being a parent is not telling the truth.

It is very important to learn. And I try to learn from everything around me.

A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.

Truth is better for humanity than ignorance, lies, or spin. And it's more interesting.

As a result of all his education, from everything he hears and sees around him, the child absorbs such a lot of lies and foolish nonsense, mixed in with essential truths, that the first duty of the adolescent who wants to be a healthy man is to disgorge it all.

Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again.

We have nothing now between us, save - respect, perhaps. And I think that respect has maybe room for secrets, but not for lies.

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

The answers aren't important really... What's important is- knowing all the questions.

I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.

Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.

Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.

Knowledge is a matter of science and no dishonesty or conceit whatsoever is permissible. What is required is definitely the reverse - honesty and modesty.

I will always be interested in the truth, yeah.