Comforting Quote by Carl Sagan Download Open image “Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.” — Carl Sagan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Comforting Fantasy Hard Truth Hard truths Truth
Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story? What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? When the lightning strikes shadows on the bedroom wall and the rain taps at the… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share
Nobody wants to see the truth. Everybody wants to have the fantasy. When I look back at the books I was reading in my… — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
Truth will flourish in fantasy, only to wither and die in what you are pleased to call reality. — Bernard Schubert Copy Share Image
“It is much easier to live with the fantasy because the fantasy gives meaning to the suffering.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Fantasy is no good unless the seed it springs from is a truth, a truth about human beings. — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Let me tell you the truth: The truth is what is. And what should be is a fantasy a terrible, terrible lie that someone… — Lenny Bruce 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… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
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… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“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… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
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
“When you get lost in a really strange place, nothing is more comforting than found your friend whom you trust and can show the… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Soothing touch, whether it be applied to a ruffled cat, a crying infant, or a frightened child, has a universally recognized power to ameliorate… — Deane Juhan Copy Share Image
Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it. — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
Truth is often uncomfortable. It is only comforting to those who do not wish to ignore it. Then, truth becomes not only comforting, but… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I've been sent down to the minor leagues six or seven times in my career. You've just got to have that stability. It's huge.… — Matt Diaz Copy Share Image
The upshot here is that Gil Scott-Heron is still a warrior, even if the front lines have moved. He's made a record not without… — Will Hermes Copy Share Image
The person in misery does not need a look that judges and criticizes but a comforting presence that brings peace and hope and life… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
The search for God is a reversal of the normal, mundane worldly order. In search for God, you revert from what attracts you and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Soeur Marie Emelie" Soeur Marie Emelie is little and very old: her eyes are onyx, and her cheeks vermilion, her apron wide and kind… — Caryll Houselander Copy Share Image
I just found it interesting to talk to adults I admired, and to discover that the path they took was never all that clearly… — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
What is this Charity, this clinking of money between strangers, and when did Charity cease to be a comforting and secret thing between one… — Stella Benson 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)
