Denial Quotes - Page 4

Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.

It is the lack of knowledge of, or the unwillingness to recognise, or the deliberate denial of the existence of the serial bully which is the most common reason for an unsatisfactory outcome for both employee and employer.

We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us

I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.

All human kingship risks a denial of the sovereignty of God.

Debate is so much better than denial.

I love carbs, but denial is good training for the mind.

Security is the denial of life

Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.

There’s no way that you can live an adequate life without many mistakes. In fact, one trick in life is to get so you can handle mistakes. Failure to handle psychological denial is a common way for people to go broke.

I will usually be in denial about that, too, because I really don't like that. Sometimes I will recognize it and sometimes someone will say, "are you okay?" And then you think, "Oh, maybe I'm not."

Denial is the lid on our emotional pressure cooker: the longer we leave it on, the more pressure we build up. Sooner or later, that pressure is bound to pop the lid, and we have an emotional crisis.

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.

She's in that state of mind that she wants to deny SOMETHING only she doesn't know what to deny!

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

American society has gone completely into denial.

When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society.

Know this: God’s delays are not necessarily His denials. So keep praying.

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

Self-denial is a monkish virtue.

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

Friedrich Hayek made the point that one of the keystones of socialism is the denial of individual responsibility. Thus, the crusade for socialism always included attacks on individual responsibility. For if individuals do not have free will, and are not responsible for their actions, then their lives must be controlled somehow - preferably by the state - according to the socialists. They must be regulated, regimented and controlled - for their own good.