Gregory Nunn Quotes

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

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

Time and events bring out the truth, but they also deal a mortal blow.

Hardly any man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous.

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

Some remedies are worse than the disease.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

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.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

What you don't know can hurt you.

Truth is often attended with danger

… whoever brushes aside even a part of the truth, whether through intention or oversight, is doomed to fall. The truth he lacks thrives on negligence, and brings down whatever is built without it.

Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you may die of the truth.

I'm not a believer in 'what you don't know won't hurt you,' unless it's innocent.

I can't protect you from knowledge.

No lie can live forever.

Be careful what you do, because the lie becomes the truth.

One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

Alas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth.

How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of millions!

Few men know all the ill they do.

Truth may sometimes hurt, but delusion harms.