Unpalatable Truth Quotes

But I do know which is the least popular. The truth.

The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.

What ails the truth is that it is mainly uncomfortable, and often dull. The human mind seeks something more amusing, and more caressing.

Some truth has no nourishment in it.

But a myth, to speak plainly, to me is like a menu in a fancy French restaurant: glamorous, complicated camouflage for a fact you wouldn't otherwise swallow, like maybe lima beans.

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.

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

Truth is scary. Truth has bad breath at times

Sometimes the truth is inflammatory.

It isn't that the lies are too beautiful to resist. It's that the truth is too hideous to face.

The truth is a bully we all pretend to like

There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear.

Now the answer ... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.

Homely truth is unpalatable.

The truth usually has a slightly ugly look.

One of the great things about Churchill is that he had the guts to say the unpalatable, to level with the people, even if it cost him politically to tell them the truth.

This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and unceasing for millions of years before armaments were invented or armies organized. Indeed, the lucid intervals of peace and order only occurred in human history after armaments in the hands of strong governments have come into being, and civilization in every age has been nursed only in cradles guarded by superior weapons and superior discipline.

Truth is so often disconcerting.

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

Woman dwell always in the palace of unpalatable truth and never by any chance is there a magic talisman to save them from their destiny. Speech is their ultimate need. We men exist for them only in so far as we can be described.

The man who never tells an unpalatable truth 'at the wrong time' (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.