Bitter Truth Quotes

• 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.

  Antisthenes

  Love, Friendship, Dream

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

  Ann Landers

  Positive, Witty, Truth

  Ann Landers (1996). “Wake Up and Smell the Coffee!: Advice, Wisdom, and Uncommon Good Sense”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• Don't lie to me. Don't deceive me. Give me the truth. Even if it breaks me. A painful truth is better than a pleasant lie.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Lying, Giving, Painful

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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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• 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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• A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

  Chanakya

  Integrity, Men, Deeds

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Avigdor Lieberman

  Sweet, Lying, People

  "'It Is a Clash of Civilizations'". Interview with Martin Doerry, Christoph Schult, www.spiegel.de. March 21, 2010.

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

  Chanakya

  Integrity, Cutting, People

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• I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

  Pietro Aretino

  Inspirational, I Love You, Boyfriend

  Pietro Aretino (1926). “The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix”

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

  Chanakya

  Friendship, Happiness, Wisdom

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

  Chanakya

  Education, Secret, Guru

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Inspirational, Money

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.125, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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

  Chanakya

  God, Idols, Soul

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• Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Dream, Art, Truth

  Les Mots (The Words, 1964) "crire"

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• 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.

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Encouraging, People

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

  Chanakya

  Education, Flower, Wind

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• Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Love, Life, Lying

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

  Chanakya

  Friendship, Education, Self

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

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Inspirational, Truth, Comfort

  "All Said and Done". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, 1972.

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• 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.

  Alija Izetbegovic

  Inspirational, God, Truth

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• The poor tell us who we are, the prophets tell us who we could be, so we hide the poor, and kill the prophets.

  Philip Berrigan

  Truth, Who We Are, Killing

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