Quotes about Unpleasant Facts

George Santayana

What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word--the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man rub his eyes in his waking dream, and put two and two together. Enlightenment is cold water.

Margaret Sanger

Charity conceals a stupid cruelty, because it is not courageous enough to face unpleasant facts.

She felt that charity did not focus on the root causes of the problems and thus inhibited reform.

Arthur Miller

No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient.

George Orwell

I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.

Harper Lee

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

Holly Black

The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter.

Muhammad

Say what is true, although what may be bitter and displeasing to people.

Unfortunately, Islamic politicians have no more followed this dictum then there non-Muslim counterparts have.

Ram Dass

Truth is scary. Truth has bad breath at times

John F. Kennedy

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.

Rick Yancey

It isn't that the lies are too beautiful to resist. It's that the truth is too hideous to face.

Ronald Reagan

We have not inherited an easy world. If developments like the Industrial revolution, which began in England, and the gifts of science and technology have made life much easier for us, they have also made it more dangerous. There are threats now to our freedom, indeed to our very existence, that other generations could never even have imagined. There is first the threat of global war. No president, no Congress, no prime minister, no parliament can spend a day entirely free of this threat. If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.