Facing Facts Quotes

I think that one should recognize reality even when one doesn't like it; indeed, especially when one doesn't like it.

… facts are like cows. If you stare them in the face hard enough, they generally run away.

Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it." "Are you saying we shouldn't hope?" "I'm saying we should remove the carrot and walk forward with our eyes open!

I don't believe you get to just act like things didn't happen because it's uncomfortable or sad.

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

There's no point in living in an alternate reality.

The imagination has its limits, and you have to face up to that.

One and all have to face reality now.

Most of the time, you think the problem is not as big as it is - because it says something negative about you or your company or your leadership. Face the reality: The facts are not as you want them to be.

It is no use dealing with illusions and make-believes. We must look at the facts. The world ... is too dangerous for anyone to be able to afford to nurse illusions. We must look at realities.

Faith which refuses to face indisputable facts is but little faith. Truth is always gain, however hard it is to accommodate ourselves to it. To linger in any kind of untruth proves to be a departure from the straight way of faith.

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.

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

You have to live in reality: not in what might happen but what is happening.

Facing facts is always empowering.

Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities.

We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.

We need realism to deal with reality.

Nothing has ever become better by ignoring the reality.

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.

And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.

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

If you stand right fronting and face to face to a fact, you will see the sun glimmer on both its surfaces, as if it were a cimeter, and feel its sweet edge dividing you through the heart and marrow, and so you will happily conclude your mortal career. Be it life or death, we crave only reality. If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats and feel cold in the extremities; if we are alive, let us go about our business.