Inconvenient Truth Quotes

• It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

  Upton Sinclair

  Wisdom, Men, People

  Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Truth, People

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• The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.

  Winston Churchill

  Procrastination, Entering, Delay

  Sir Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.126, A&C Black

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• Global warming, along with the cutting and burning of forests and other critical habitats, is causing the loss of living species at a level comparable to the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. That event was believed to have been caused by a giant asteroid. This time it is not an asteroid colliding with the Earth and wreaking havoc: it is us.

  Al Gore

  Inspirational, Cutting, Loss

  Al Gore (2006). “An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It”, p.10, Rodale

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• What we take for granted might not be here for our children.

  Al Gore

  Children, Might, Granted

  "An Inconvenient Truth". www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, "What were our parents thinking? Why didn't they wake up when they had a chance?" We have to hear that question from them, now.

  Al Gore

  Thinking, Parent, Generations

  "An Inconvenient Truth". Documentary, www.imdb.com. June 30, 2006.

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

  Denis Diderot

  Inspirational, Trust, Truth

  "Rameau's Nephew". Book by Denis Diderot, 1821.

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• You see that pale, blue dot? That's us. Everything that has ever happened in all of human history, has happened on that pixel. All the triumphs and all the tragedies, all the wars all the famines, all the major advances... it's our only home. And that is what is at stake, our ability to live on planet Earth, to have a future as a civilization. I believe this is a moral issue, it is your time to seize this issue, it is our time to rise again to secure our future.

  Al Gore

  War, Believe, Home

  "An Inconvenient Truth". Documentary, www.imdb.com. June 30, 2006.

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• Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

  George Orwell

  Doe, Want, Publicity

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• It is better to disappoint people with the truth than to appease them with a lie.

  Simon Sinek

  Lying, People, Disappoint

  Twitter post from Nov 26, 2013

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• It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that.  But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.

  Al Gore

  Wish, Dots, Human Nature

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• Most of us avoid telling the truth because it's uncomfortable. We're afraid of the consequences-making others feel uncomfortable, hurting their feelings or risking their anger. And yet, when we don't tell the truth, and others don't tell us the truth, we can't deal with matters from a basis in reality.

  Jack Canfield

  Hurt, Reality, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Dec 02, 2013

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• I don't really consider this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue.

  Al Gore

  Issues, Political, Moral

  "An Inconvenient Truth". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2006.

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

  Paulo Coelho

  Liberating

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 09, 2011

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Funny, Bible, Jesus

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• If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Wisdom, Witty

  Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more”, Eighty Pence Books

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• I am Al Gore, and I used to be the next president of the United States of America.

  Al Gore

  America, President, Als

  "An Inconvenient Truth". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

  Erica Jong

  Funny, Being Strong, Spiritual

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 02, 2015

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• An Inconvenient Truth is so convincing that it makes opposers of the argument as credible as Holocaust deniers.

  Jon Niccum

  Holocaust, Argument, Truth Is

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• ...it is appropriate to have an over representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.

  Al Gore

  Opening Up, Hopeful, Dangerous

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• Seeing and admitting the truth about ourselves, about our role in creating our own problems, and about how we relate to others is vital for healing.

  Caroline Myss

  Healing, Creating, Admitting

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing”, p.45, Harmony

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• It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Friendship, Patience, Truth

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.81

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• Apparently people don't like the truth, but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bullshit, then maybe just once, one of them will say, 'Oh! Wait a minute - I was wrong.' I live for that happening. Rare, I assure you

  Lemmy Kilmister

  People, Bullshit, Waiting

  Lemmy Kilmister (2012). “White Line Fever: Lemmy: The Autobiography”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Truth, Real

  Mark Twain, John S. Tuckey (1972). “Mark Twain's Fables of Man”, p.339, Univ of California Press

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• Sometimes seeing everything just gets in the way.

  Chris Lynch

  Novelists, Way, Sometimes

  Chris Lynch (2011). “Angry Young Man”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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