Quotes About Challenge

Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.

Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it.

What happens when you broadcast the truth is you piss everyone off!

You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.

The main reason I like UFC is not just the martial arts aspect, but it's about one person against the other person. It's about being able to test yourself with the truth.

The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.

No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen!

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

If you are a complete perfectionist, then the truth is that this ice skating business will drive you a little crazy!

The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth.

How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?

You will never be entirely comfortable. This is the truth behind the champion - he is always fighting something. To do otherwise is to settle.

I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks.

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

The solitary monk who shook the world From pagan slumber, when the gospel trump Thunder' d its challenge from his dauntless lips In peals of truth.

Truth provokes those whom it does not convert.

Truth is like a waterslide-only fun when it's slippery and wet.

When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.

I've been told, by various people, that I think too much. This is incorrect! The truth is that I deliberately challenge people to think more than they would like to.

The truth will set you free, but it's only slightly less scary than hell and a whole lot harder to get there.

...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy and pleasurable as bathing a cat.

What I propose, then, is a strategy for interrogating the Darwinists to, as it were, squeeze the truth out of them.