Difficult Truths Quotes

When I have a difficult subject before me - when I find the road narrow, and can see no other way of teaching a well established truth except by pleasing one intelligent man and displeasing ten thousand fools - I prefer to address myself to the one man, and to take no notice whatever of the condemnation of the multitude; I prefer to extricate that intelligent man from his embarrassment and show him the cause of his perplexity, so that he may attain perfection and be at peace.

There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them.

Remember that when criticism is difficult to accept, there is probably some truth to it.

The hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most.

... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.

The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.

It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.

Like all art, nonfiction film should invite, seduce, or force us to confront the most difficult, frightening or mysterious aspects of what it means to be human.

Easy answers are never really useful ones, so hopefully we're not trying to peddle easy answers.

The truth's not pretty of course. No one likes to look it in the face.

The truth is not beautiful --- it stands on cloven hooves - it is covered in coagulated blood --- but it is the truth.

It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.