A Quote by Arthur Miller

No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient.

Arthur Miller

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Inconvenient Truth Wants

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Arthur Miller
American - Playwright
October 17, 1915 - February 10, 2005

Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.

Bertrand Russell

Al Gore has a hit movie called 'An Inconvenient Truth.' I have an inconvenient truth for him: you're still not the president. ... This past weekend, Al Gore's movie, 'An Inconvenient Truth,' earned more per screen than any film in the country. ... I dare say Gore's movie is the highest grossing PowerPoint presentation in history. ... Global warming: Can we live with it? ... It is time we did something, namely resign ourselves to doing nothing [on screen: Follow Congress' Lead]. ... For instance, when sea levels rise, we'll just build levees [on screen: Worked for New Orleans]

Stephen Colbert

Knowledge of facts is important. Knowledge of truth is essential. Yet our Lord's concern goes beyond mere head knowledge. He wants us not only to know the truth but also to obey the truth. He wants us to live the truth, practice the truth, and be conformed to and transformed by that truth.

Wayne Mack

Well, the title "An Inconvenient Truth" is a way of highlighting the reasons why some people, including the president, don't seem to accept the truth.

Al Gore

I'm a scientist at heart, so I know how important the truth is. However inconvenient, however unattractive, however embarrassing, however shocking, the truth is the truth, and wanting it not to be true doesn't change things.

Ricky Gervais

It's important to listen to what scientists have to say, even when it's inconvenient, especially when it's inconvenient

Barack Obama

A gaffe is a politician inadvertently telling an inconvenient truth.

Michael Kinsley

It is, therefore, a fact that anybody who wants to realise Truth or who wants to be humane, must follow non-violent ways of life, otherwise he will not be able to reach the Truth.

Morarji Desai

Censorship, by definition, is suppression of objectionable material that can be harmful or inconvenient. Since when has it become inconvenient or dangerous for a young woman to be confused in love?

Kanika Dhillon

I've seen some version of 'An Inconvenient Truth' since I was born.

Kristin Gore

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

Jon Niccum

Far from environmental prophet, he is a foreign oil profiteer. That is the inconvenient truth of Al Gore.

Pierre Poilievre

You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.

Ellis Peters

In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.

Daniel Goleman

The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.