Adolfo Aguilar Zinser Quotes

We must face the facts as we find them, not as we may wish them.

I believe in facing reality. But only because I don't like turning my back on it.

Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

How hard it is to accept the truth. How hard it is

You have to show reality as it is, not as you wish it to be.

Nothing has ever become better by ignoring the reality.

Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie.

Recognize reality even when you don't like it-especially when you don't like it.

It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.

First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to refuse to think merely in slogans. If we are to work for the future of the city, let us deal with the realities as they actually are, not as they might have been, and not as we wish they were.

I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.

That's what I mean by radical truth. I mean accepting reality.

Seek truth from facts.

I'm simply trying to tell the truth about human behaviour as I see it.

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

Ignoring facts does not make them go away.

I do try to write in ways that reflect reality, and I think that reality is rarely simple.

I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.

Trying to ground everything in reality was the most important thing to me.

Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer.

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.