If we look too closely at many historical figures, we won't like what we see.
I don't think people like to read about themselves or about others as they really are. It would be too horrifying.
We can't have a show where we only show the good parts and when things turn ugly, as life often does, we stop pack up our stuff, apologize to the millions watching, and just go home.
There are many hard truths that we must face in life.
But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.
Geese are but Geese tho' we may think 'em Swans; and Truth will be Truth tho' it sometimes prove mortifying and distasteful.
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
One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.
There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said.
If some part of the review is true, those are the ones that sting.
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Science casts a long black shadow back over who we think we are, and where it falls the temperature falls with it. Its touch is chilly and unforgiving.
I just tell the truth. Some people don't like it. Some people do.
Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
There is the natural tendency that all of us are vulnerable to, to deny unpleasant realities and to look for any excuse to push them away and resolve to think about them another day long in the future.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Why is it that the most important stuff to listen to is almost always the stuff we don't want to hear?
A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear.
When people say, 'Nothing's coming to me,' they usually don't like what's coming to them.
It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below.
So much for the myth that motherhood is all Laura Ashley smocks and skipping through fields. People think it's rose-tinted and they don't tell the truth!
