A blunt statement can be as false as any other.
Mason Cooley

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
William Wordsworth

About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
Edsger Dijkstra

Australians are pretty blunt and we say things how they really are.
Charlie Bell

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
James Thurber

Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
Barbara Walters

Excellent, there's nothing quite like a blunt object to reinforce proper administration ethics.
Simon Travaglia

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
Lao Tzu

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
A. E. Housman

Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups.
Tom Allen

How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.
Robert Blair

I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas.
Robert Teeter

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.
Jay London

I'm gonna be blunt and plain, if one ever looks at me like that I'm gonna kill him and tell God he died.
Jimmy Swaggart

If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.
Richard M. Nixon

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
Pat Metheny

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
Blaise Pascal

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
Max Beerbohm

Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to be a bit of a blunt fellow. We began talking about the characters and he opened up about his vision.
Madeleine Stowe

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
Chinua Achebe