Encouraging Quote by Carl Sagan Download Open image ““Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable”” — Carl Sagan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Encouraging Hard Truth Truth
“No lies, I thought, but lots of stories. True stories. True lies. Powerful stories, heroic tales, and cautionary fables.” — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Tales are not created to tell the truth, the truth as relative as everything else in life” — أميرة الشربيني Amira Elsherbiny Copy Share Image
“How many things were articles of faith to us yesterday that are fables to us today?” — Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Outbreaks of unvarnished truths in the backyard of our true self can be very precious and inspiring, even though we might inconsistently be tempted… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Truth is not as pompous and romantic as myth ... but it has the immeasurable value of being the Truth.” — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“A strong and brave heart isn’t enough. A true heart, no matter how much the truth hurts, is the strongest of all.” — Cameron Jace Copy Share Image
“The best stories proceed from a mysterious truth-seeking impulse that narrative has when revised extensively; they are complex and baffling and ambiguous; they tend to make us slower to act, rather than quicker. They make us more humble, cause us to empathize with people we don’t know, because they help us imagine these people, and when we imagine them—if the… — George Saunders Copy Share
“Another story. We cling tightly to it, and our belief turns it to truth.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“When I write an story, I start with one true thing – a memory, an image, a sensation – then I try to say… — David Surface Copy Share Image
“Oh, this is a reality, not a fable, that the Lord Jesus Christ is our friend. And we should not be satisfied till we… — George Muller Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it not stirring to understand how the world actually works — that white light is made of colors, that color is the way we perceive the wavelengths of light, that transparent air reflects light, that in so… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Telepathy’ literally means to feel at a distance, just as ‘telephone’ is to hear at a distance and ‘television’ is to see at a distance. The word suggests the communication not of thoughts but of feelings, emotions. Around a quarter of all Americans believe they’ve experienced something like telepathy. People who know each other very well, who live together, who… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
“On the scale of worlds—to say nothing of stars or galaxies—humans are inconsequential, a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of dreams! — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“[ When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996 :] If ‘fulfilled prophecy’ is your criterion,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make up the Milky Way Galaxy which is one of billions of other galaxies which make up a universe which may be one of a very large number, perhaps an infinite number, of other universes. That is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“It is not so much about fighting against the ego; it is more about harmonizing with it.” — Grace Sara Copy Share Image
Always remember, there is more strength in you than you ever realized or even imagined. Certainly nothing can keep you down if you are… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
I am encouraged President Obama now says he will fulfill his constitutional obligation to seek authorization for any potential military action in Syria. This… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“Today if anything is trying to hold you back, give no attention to it. Get your hopes up, get your faith up, look up,… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
Anytime I get the chance to sing or work with Michael John, it is such an incredibly fertile and incredibly creative and safe and… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid of failure, be afraid of not trying in the first place. — Marie Forleo Copy Share Image
“Stop focusing on your past mistakes. Don’t be ashamed of the things that you’ve done. We ALL have made mistakes. Don’t you see? All of those things helped shape you into the beautiful person that you are today! Hold your head up high because you didn’t allow your past mistakes to consume you. You learned! You conquered! You became a… — Stephanie Lahart Copy Share
“Sigh like the wind--open your arms, your chest, your heart--and all creatures will hum to you.” — Penelope Smith Copy Share Image
Don't you know that day dawns after night, showers displace drought, and spring and summer follow winter? Then, have hope! Hope forever, for God… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
It's awfully important to win with humility. It's also important to lose. I hate to lose worse than anyone, but if you never lose… — Bear Bryant Copy Share Image
![“[ When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996 :] If ‘fulfilled prophecy’ is your criterion, why do you not believe in materialistic science, which has an unparalleled record of fulfilled prophecy? Consider, for example, eclipses.” quote by Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/875/carl-sagan-160_belief_when-a-religious-couple-wrote-to-sagan-a_25095.jpg)
