Acknowledging the Truth Quotes

Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting than the fantasy.

We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.

The truth - you've got to deal with it or it will kill you bit by bit.

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.

Trying to get people to face reality and see the world the way it really is is an absolutely critical aspect of leadership, in my view.

Tell troth and shame the devil.

She wouldn't say what we both knew. 'The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true: is that it? But you know it is true now. I can almost tell you the day when you knew it is true. Why won't you say it, even to yourself?' She will not say it.

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

nothing good ever comes out of denying the truth about our situation.

You cannot allow any of your people to avoid the brutal facts. If they start living in a dream world, it's going to be bad.

It's better to live with a sad truth than with all the happy progress talk you get up here in the North.

It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie.

There can be no healing without truth.

Just when the truth about life sinks in, His truth starts to surface. He takes us by the hand and dares us not to sweep the facts under the rug but to confront them with him at our side.

Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality.

..I've been trying to argue myself into thinking these things don't matter, A. Really,I have. But I've lost the argument. And I can't keep having it, when I know what the real answer is.

I think that in a general sense, the idea of getting comfortable with the truth in life is uncomfortable.

The reality is that if you want to be in a reality-based community, you've got to respect reality and that means calling it bad when you see the past ahead and it doesn't look good and acknowledging when it's going to work.

You do not have to love what is going on in your life, but you must accept that it, whatever it is, is going on. As long as you do not accept reality, you are powerless to define the role you will play.

The ending of irrational fantasies is always going to come as a rude jolt.