Top 37 Unpleasant Truth Quotes
#1. To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not.
Eric Hoffer
#2. One should not hurt others even by words. One must not speak an unpleasant truth unnecessarily.
Sarada Devi
#3. To act honestly- even at the risk of saying the unpleasant truth, or of saying no and causing distress to others- if done with intelligence and tact, is the kindest thing to do because it respects our own integrity and acknowledges in others the capacity to be competent and mature.
Piero Ferrucci
#4. One thing I think, about humans is that we'd rather live in a comfortable lie then in an unpleasant truth.
Adam Snowflake
#5. Where do thoroughbreds go after they lose one too many races, throw one too many riders, or develop a limp? Many thousands of thoroughbreds end up being slaughtered for horse meat. The unpleasant truth is horse meat is eaten in Europe and Asia.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
#6. In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.
Theodore Roosevelt
#7. If our subject persuades himself to believe contrary to the evidence in order to evade, somehow, the unpleasant truth to which he has already seen that the evidence points, then and only then is he clearly a self-deceiver.
Herbert Fingarette
#8. Better is to speak unpleasant truth than to tell lies.
Gautama Buddha
#9. It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have something worth fighting for,they do not feel like fighting.
Eric Hoffer
#11. Their only words. You can't be afraid of words that speak the truth, even if it's an unpleasant truth.
George Carlin
#12. I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.
Jude Morgan
#13. The truth only comes if you are willing to face some really unpleasant things about yourself.
Bryant McGill
#14. No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.
Frank Herbert
#15. Can't you see? Before you knew the truth, we were happy. What's the god in ferreting out the truth all that time? It's always unpleasant."
"Is it only lies that are Pleasant?"
"Usually. That's why people tell them. To make life bearable.
Penelope Mortimer
#16. Politicians don't like to face unpleasant realities. In truth, nobody does, but as individuals, we have no choice; if we neglect to plan ahead, we are held accountable. Fail to meet your responsibilities at work, and you get fired. Ignore your car's gas gauge, and you get stranded.
Nathan Myhrvold
#17. I always say the truth is best even when we find it unpleasant. Any rat in a sewer can lie. It's how rats are. It's what makes them rats. But a human doesn't run and hide in dark places, because he's something more. Lying is the most personal act of cowardice there is.
Nancy Farmer
#19. The force of uprightness must baffle the weak. And unpleasant colossal notes are written to dying institutions in small primes. Take a dying institution holding on to prime and within sight of an individual able to tell the rude truth and uphold it, the dying institution will not stand
Dew Platt
#20. The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
Ayn Rand
#21. You can't change an unpleasant reality if you won't acknowledge it, Mac. You can only control what you're willing to face. Truth hurts. But lies can kill.
Karen Marie Moning
#22. That is truth, Kobbi, unpleasant thought though it be. We do not wish to go on year after year living slavish lives. Working, working, working! Getting nowhere.
George S. Clason
#23. Sometimes, Miss Jarmond, it's not easy to bring back the past. There are unpleasant surprises. The truth is harder than ignorance
Tatiana De Rosnay
#24. Everyone is looking for the answer. They do not want to find the answer, trust me. Unfortunately, the answer will find them. Life - it's like one of those unpleasant nature documentaries. To be the cameraman instead of the subjects, eh?
Laird Barron
#25. A society committed to the search for truth must give protection to, and set a high value upon, the independent and original mind, however angular, however rasping, however socially unpleasant it may be; for it is upon such minds, in large measure, that the effective search for truth depends.
Caryl Parker Haskins
#26. To speak the truth, as truth to me appeared, Caused noisy protests, I was hooted down. Such unpleasant incidents occurred That I ran off so as to be alone, Into the wilds. Utterly forsaken, I took at last the Devil for companion.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#27. The truth is that God is to be found in all things - even and most especially in the painful, tragic and unpleasant things.
David Brenner
#28. The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life
the life God is sending one day by day.
C.S. Lewis
#29. Was his memory failing or had he so disciplined it in the repression of unpleasant facts that he had damaged his sense of the truth?
John Cheever
#30. The best way to avoid becoming a scapegoat is to find one.
Warren Eyster
#31. Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
Benjamin Disraeli
#32. We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
C.S. Lewis
#33. It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#34. The book told unpleasant truths, and anyone who doesn't feel a qualm of regret at throwing a blanket over the truth is an asshole with no conscience.
Stephen King
#35. We are motivated more by aversion to the unpleasant than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing. We are constantly attempting to escape our life, to avoid rather than enter our pain we, and we wonder why it is so difficult to be fully alive. (43)
Stephen Levine
#37. Life rarely develops as we expect. People surprise us, sometimes in unpleasant ways. They don't always react as we hope they will or want them to.
A.A. Aguirre
