Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Oh well, the truth hurts, doesn't it?

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

Truth is scary. Truth has bad breath at times

Homely truth is unpalatable.

Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.

Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?

To criticize one's country is to do it a service and to pay it a compliment. It is a service because it may spur the country to do better than it is doing; it is a compliment because it evidences a belief that the country can do better than it is doing.

I just feel like sometimes people don't want to hear the truth. It's hard when you hear the truth. People want to hear what they want to hear. Sometimes I have a hard time with that because I'm very honest.

The truth hurts. It hurts to some people.

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

Some truth has no nourishment in it.

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said.

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally.

Critics have their uses. They can crystallize a moment and bring into sharp relief the mistakes that have been made and what must be done to correct them.

We are a country that does better when we do debate and air our differences.

There are unpleasant things which it is easy for only me to tell him.

Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.

The truth is not beautiful --- it stands on cloven hooves - it is covered in coagulated blood --- but it is the truth.