Unpopular Truth Quotes

#1. Progress has always been achieved by probing well-entrenched and well-founded forms of life with unpopular and unfounded values. This is how man gradually freed himself from fear and from the tyranny of unexamined systems.

Paul Karl Feyerabend

#2. Lord, we claim your strength to serve you, no matter what our circumstances may be. Amen.

Corrie Ten Boom

#3. For the habitual truth-teller and truth-seeker, indeed, the whole world has very little liking. He is always unpopular.

H.L. Mencken

#4. The truth is a thing I get id of as soon as possible! Bad habit, by the way. Makes one very unpopular at the club... with the older members. They call it being conceited. Perhaps it is.

Oscar Wilde

#5. I welcome the role that people of faith play in building Britain's future - and the Catholic communion in particular is to be congratulated for so often being the conscience of our country, for helping 'the least of these' even when bearing witness to the truth is hard or unpopular.

Gordon Brown

#6. Adam stood up. It felt good to have identified the problem. That had always been the hardest part. With an engine, with school, with life. Solutions were easy, once you knew what was in your way.

Maggie Stiefvater

#7. Aunt Lovey used to tell me that if I wanted to be a writer, I needed a writer's voice. 'Read,' she'd say, 'and if you have a writer's voice, one day it will shout out, 'I can do that too!

Lori Lansens

#8. The lover's pleasure is in the pleasure of the beloved. The lover is satisfied when the beloved is fed. The lover is vain when the beloved is adorned.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#9. In the pursuit of knowledge, no one should travel alone

C.S. Woolley

#10. Torture must only be hypothetical exception, not US policy.

William J. Clinton

#11. I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.

James A. Garfield

#12. The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular, and even when, by the sheer strength of his case, he prevails, he is put down as a scoundrel.

H.L. Mencken

#13. As gas prices continue to drop, 28 states are now selling regular gasoline for less than $2 a gallon. It's getting cheaper to pump two gallons of gas outside the station than it is to pump two squirts of nacho cheese inside.

Jimmy Fallon

#14. Repent heart, rebirth of spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand ... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

Anton Chekhov

#16. The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment to discover the truth ... It takes the highest courage to utter unpopular truths.

Herbert Spencer

#17. Nothing is so unpopular as positive change amongst friends. It seems when you change for the better, the people around you will be inspired to change ... But only after trying their hardest to make you stop. Live your truth and don't EVER let anyone dilute your power to change!

Steve Maraboli

#18. You don't need shock value things to make a movie successful.

Haylie Duff

#19. Because truth is unpopular does not mean that it should not be proclaimed.

Billy Graham

#20. Behind closed doors, we're all the fat uncool kid.

Su-Mari Diedericks

#21. The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity.

Ram Dass

#22. Conversion is not completing a ritual, it is commencing a relationship. The assurance of ritual is based on accurate words and memory. The assurance of relationship is based on a present posture of repentance and belief.

J.D. Greear

#23. Why do I speak forth the unpopular? I have a sweet tooth but not when it comes back up.

Donna Lynn Hope

#24. When you throw trash on the ground, you apparently don't see yourself as truly belonging to the world that you're walking in.

Sebastian Junger

#25. You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

Adlai E. Stevenson

#26. I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

Jimmy Carter

#27. They're not going to send a crazy man out to be killed, are they?"
"Who else will go?

Joseph Heller

#28. Truth will only make you unpopular.

Wolfgang Borchert

#29. They try to paint the picture that I was this downtrodden, ugly girl who was unpopular in school and in life, and then I got this role and now I'm awesome. But the truth is that I've been awesome, and then I got this role.

Gabourey Sidibe

#30. If Christians will obey the instructions given to them by Christ and his inspired apostles, they will adorn the religion of the Bible, and save themselves much perplexity and severe trials, which they attribute to their afflictions in consequence of believing unpopular truth.

Ellen G. White