Charlie Munger Quotes

Sometimes it seems like if you open up the door to reality and invite it in, it will just come flowing.

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

The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.

I do believe that reality is dreadful and that you are forced to choose it in the end or go crazy, but that it kills you.

Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.

Truth is not always a pleasant thing.

Facing facts is always empowering.

It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie.

I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.

Gone is the blinding glow in his hands - gone, too, is the illusion of purity and beauty! In it's place all that remains is mind-numbing, spine-chilling reality!

Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?

We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.

The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

The truth is a bully we all pretend to like

There comes a moment... When imagination gives out and Reality leaps forth. It is frightful!

I was never really that worried about being a member of the Sopranos crew. I think it looks kind of fun to not have to work, to not have to take crap from anybody. And then there's the reality check in there, which is that you do have to work, you do have to take crap from people, and you can fail, and all these other things.

Apparently, the world is not a wish granting factory.

They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.

Truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter.

Harsh reality is always better than false hope.

But for me at any rate it was all part of dissolving the God trip or father-figure trip. Facing up to reality instead of always looking for some kind of heaven.

I was run over by the truth one day.Ever since the accident I've walked this way

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

I think that in a general sense, the idea of getting comfortable with the truth in life is uncomfortable.