Top 1200 Hard Truths Quotes & Sayings

...so many great truths must be very gently introduced, with voices soft and the truths themselves understated.

There are two kinds of truth. There are real truths, and there are made up truths.

Garry Shandling's stand-up specials were masterpieces of tightly crafted stories that delivered both hard jokes and hard truths. He was neurotic and self-deprecating, and his observations on life cut deep.

The gospel is not a truth among other truths. Rather, it sets a question mark against all truths.

Even the most time-honoured truths do not have to be accepted until they are your truths.

There are several kinds of truths, and it is customary to place in the first order mathematical truths, which are, however, only truths of definition. These definitions rest upon simple, but abstract, suppositions, and all truths in this category are only constructed, but abstract, consequences of these definitions ... Physical truths, to the contrary, are in no way arbitrary, and do not depend on us.

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.

Governments are not built to perceive large truths. Only people can perceive great truths. Governments specialize in small and intermediate truths. They have to be instructed by their people in great truths.

The patterns have become unmistakable and undeniable. ... We have to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice in America.

One of the hard truths about the new digital world is that we have to be prepared to acknowledge when an experiment is not going to work, and to take action.

All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number.

Outside of mathematics and logic, there are common sense truths, such as that it is snowing that normal observers, in a specified context can agree on, subject to vagueness considerations, and theoretical truths, such as that snow is crystallised water vapour, and maybe in-between truths.

At the root of any societal issue is human truth, especially those truths we find hard to confront.

Because others have let us down, it is now our duty to face the hard truths and do the right thing--no matter the personal cost.

Truths are known to us in two ways: some are known directly, and of themselves; some through the medium of other truths. The former are the subject of Intuition, or Consciousness; the latter, of Inference; the latter of Inference. The truths known by Intuition are the original premisses, from which all others are inferred.

The only truths we can point to are the ever-changing truths of our own experience.

Experience alone cannot deliver to us necessary truths; truths completely demonstrated by reason. Its conclusions are particular, not universal.

Being aware of truths about what is good or right or about what we ought to do is not the same as deciding what to do. Nor can the former truths be derived from decisions about what to do, or about procedures for making such decisions, unless these procedures themselves rest in some way on the apprehension of truths about what we ought to do.

Our procedures of deliberation are not ways of finding out independent moral truths but instead ways of "constructing" these truths, in the process of deciding what to do.

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.

All truths are bloody truths to me.

Comedy's the ultimate pill that helps the really hard truths and hard facts go down, right?

There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.

So multifarious are the different classes of truths, and so multitudinous the truths in each class, that it may be undoubtingly affirmed that no man has yet lived who could so much as name all the different classes and subdivisions of truths, and far less anyone who was acquainted with all the truths belonging to any one class. What wonderful extent, what amazing variety, what collective magnificence! And if such be the number of truths pertaining to this tiny ball of earth, how must it be in the incomprehensible immensity!

It's so hard to write about countries like Haiti because there's truths behind the misperceptions people have. But there's so much more. There are multiple truths.

The ability to make hard truths palatable is one that every long-lived co-leader has mastered.

We make our own truths and lies....Truths are often lies and lies truths.

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.

Principles don't die. They aren't here one day and gone the next. They can't be destroyed by fire, earthquake or theft. Principles are deep, fundamental truths, classic truths.

Communism starts with the proposition that there are no universal truths or general truths of human nature.

I have no faith at all in believers, because they are so far from the truths! Have respect only to those who are close to the truths!

Both in verse and in prose [Karl] Shapiro loves, partly out of indignation and partly out of sheer mischievousness, to tell the naked truths or half-truths or quarter-truths that will make anybody's hair stand on end; he is always crying: "But he hasn't any clothes on!" about an emperor who is half the time surprisingly well-dressed.

The truths that are found in the Bible are universal truths. And it shapes who you are and guides you throughout your life.

Maturity is when we live by the truths that are in our heart and soul, truths we believe to be right for us.

"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an assertion of rationality. The scientific mind of Franklin drew on the scientific determinism of Isaac Newton and the analytic empiricism of David Hume and Gottfried Leibniz. In what became known as "Hume's Fork" the latters' theory distinguished between synthetic truths that describe matters of fact, and analytic truths that are self-evident by virtue of reason and definition.

As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion

When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded.

I used the imaginary kingdom not as a sentimentalized fairyland but as an opening wedge to express what I hoped would be some very hard truths.

Some truths are truths, no matter who says them.

Acting is about truths and the more truths you're able to tell and share with your audience the more connection there will be.

Truths kindle light for truths.

Not only are there as many conflicting truths as there are people to claim them; there are equally multitudinous and conflicting truths within the individual.

There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. It doesn't work.

There are truths, that are beyond us, transcendent truths, about beauty, truth, honor, etc. There are truths that man knows exist, but they cannot be seen - they are immaterial, but no less real, to us. It is only through the language of myth that we can speak of these truths.

Hillbillies learn from an early age to deal with uncomfortable truths by avoiding them or by pretending better truths exist. This tendency might make for psychological resilience, but it also makes it hard for Appalachians to look at themselves honestly.

Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.

Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.

What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.

There are many hard truths that we must face in life.

Kierkegaard also said that truth is `subjective`. By this he did not mean it doesn't matter what we think or believe. He meant that the really important truths are personal. Only these truths are `true for me`.

Truths physical have an origin as divine as truths religious.

Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished when manipulated by people with agendas.

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

There are also two kinds of truths, those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible, and those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible. When a truth is necessary its reason can be found by analysis, resolving it into more simple ideas and truths until we reach those which are primitive.

Jesus Christ doesn’t just give us truths; he is the truth. Jesus Christ is the prophet to end all prophets. He gives us hard-copy words from God, truths on which we can build our lives, truths we have to submit to, truths we have to obey, and truths we have to build our lives on, but he himself is the truth.

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings and realize that it's sometimes more important to be nice than to be honest.

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.

But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.