Browsing Topic Best Bitter Truth Quotes

Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself – an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn’t been kind to us; but, with the help of God, we will prevail.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the field of battle.

People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don’t want to hear it.

I’d always secretly believed that a love as fierce and true as mine would be rewarded in the end, and now I was being forced to accept the bitter truth.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.

Education beats the beauty and the youth.

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

I’ve learned of life this bitter truthHope not between the crumbling walls Of mankind’s gratitude to find repose,But rather,Build within thy own soulFortresses!

It’s like I know what I gotta say, I just don’t know how to say it to you.

God has given us speech in order that we may say pleasant things to our friends, and tell bitter truths to our enemies.

Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that.

Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty … each and every one of us.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.

Most jokes state a bitter truth.

The beauty of truth: whether it is bad or good, it is liberating.

The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don’t want to go there.