Abraham A. Ribicoff Quotes

We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.

You recognize the truth because sometimes it's hard to swallow, but if you hold it in your mouth, refusing to eat it, you are going to choke.

Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.

We don’t like to face unpleasant reality. We want our leaders to tell us what we want to hear …. You cannot manipulate reality. Reality will real its ugly head

It takes a long time to realize a situation is for real, and then you finally face it.

We can't hide from the truth.

Nothing has ever become better by ignoring the reality.

I'm a fan of the truth... even if it's painfully hard to accept.

First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to refuse to think merely in slogans. If we are to work for the future of the city, let us deal with the realities as they actually are, not as they might have been, and not as we wish they were.

I believe in facing reality. But only because I don't like turning my back on it.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Ignoring facts does not make them go away.

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

There's no point in living in an alternate reality.

It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.

I'm not lying to myself like most people.

People are always afraid of the truth.

I don't like denial. I don't like repression.

Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth.

You are.

It was my decision, and I blew it, but I’m not about to say that I blew it.

He occasionally stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.

I often wonder which is best, to be honest about what you know in this world, or to continue to deny you know it and thereby fool yourself into believing that it does not exist!

We must face the facts as we find them, not as we may wish them.

Geese are but Geese tho' we may think 'em Swans; and Truth will be Truth tho' it sometimes prove mortifying and distasteful.