The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves.
If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.
That's the way I feel about the world: there are certain problems that can only be dealt with that way - going out and doing them. As ugly a truth as that is, I do think it's the truth about the world.
Young actors, fear your admirers! Learn in time, from your first steps, to hear, understand and love the cruel truth about yourselves. Find out who can tell you that truth and talk of your art only with those who can tell you the truth.
Who judges best of a Man, his Enemies or himself?
Our enemies' opinion of us comes closer to the truth than our own.
We need an idiot middle ground, where we have to be honest and say, kids can be idiots and cops can be idiots.
You cannot allow any of your people to avoid the brutal facts. If they start living in a dream world, it's going to be bad.
We cannot pretend we do not have problems; we cannot pretend things are not wrong in our country. A lot of things are wrong.
The most important quality of leadership is intellectual honesty. The reality principle - the ability to see the world as it really is, not as you wish it were.
Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
The most valuable insight on choosing whom to love is to be honest with yourself about the man standing before you.
I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.
Concussions, you have to be really honest with yourself, and sometimes that's hard to do.
