Quotes on Bitter Truth

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Education beats the beauty and the youth.

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

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

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

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

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

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.

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