Bitter Truth Quotes - Page 2

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

  Bart D. Ehrman

  Truth, Want, Firsts

  Bart D. Ehrman (2011). “Forged: Writing in the Name of God--Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• 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.

  Maxim Gorky

  Guilt, Bitter, Speak

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

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Beauty, Education

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• Most jokes state a bitter truth.

  Larry Gelbart

  Bitterness, States, Jokes

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• 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.

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Work, Successful

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• Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

  Pietro Aretino

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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• Education beats the beauty and the youth.

  Chanakya

  Education, Learned Person, Youth

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

  Drake

  Love, Relationship, Break Up

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• If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man's soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is hard to hear and accept, and it is only natural that many people deny it and say it is better for a man to live on in a trance than to wake up to torture.

  Maxim Gorky

  Men, People, Soul

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

  George R. R. Martin

  Bitter, Treason

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1749, Bantam

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• I've learned of life this bitter truth
  Hope not between the crumbling walls Of mankind's gratitude to find repose,
  But rather,
  Build within thy own soul
  Fortresses!

  Georgia Douglas Johnson

  Gratitude, Wall, Soul

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• I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting (WWI) to those who want the war to go on forever. Feeble, inarticulate will be my message, but it will have a bitter truth and may it burn their lousy souls.

  Paul Nash

  War, Fighting, Men

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• 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.

  James A. Baldwin

  America, Society, Battle

  "Notes of a Native Son". Book by James Baldwin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 1955.

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• 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.

  Alma Katsu

  Would Be, Bitter, Fierce

  Alma Katsu (2012). “The Taker: Book One of the Taker Trilogy”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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

  Heinrich Heine

  Order, Enemy, May

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.88

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• So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police.

  Tom Lantos

  America, Police, Enlisting

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• Now in the light of past and present events the bitter truth must be spoken. We feared too little and we hoped too much. We underestimated the bestiality of the enemy; we overestimtaed the humanity, the wisdom, the sense of justice of our friends.

  Chaim Weizmann

  Past, Light, Justice

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• 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.

  Christina Rossetti

  Beauty, Eye, Vanity

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.160, Delphi Classics

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