Denial Quotes - Page 8

What state do you live in? Denial.

Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.

Skepticism is not a denial of belief, but rather a denial of rational grounds for belief.

only a matter of time before it broke through our fragile web of denial, forcing us to confront the truth and acknowledge who we are: two people in love – a love that nobody else could possibly understand.

But the moment the politicians start saying they are in denial of what the scientists are telling them, of what the consensus of scientific experiments demonstrates, that is the beginning of the end of an informed democracy.

Superstitions typically involve seeing order where in fact there is none, and denial amounts to rejecting evidence of regularities, sometimes even ones that are staring us in the face.

Those conspiracies that are too incredible to be believed, are by the same right, those which most often succeed.

The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned.

If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it.

If a favour is asked of you, grant it if you can. If not, refuse it in such a manner as that one denial may be sufficient.

[Heresy is] the dislocation of a complete and self-supporting scheme by the introduction of a novel denial of some essential part therein.

The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others.

There is no defence against an evil which only the victims and the perpetrators know exists.

What we're seeing is an era where governments and huge organizations such as the IOC don't have accountability. They don't have accountability to the athletes they are supposed to be protecting and they don't have accountability to the truth. What we've seen out of Russia is a continual denial, no matter what has been presented. They are still blaming Grigory Rodchenkov as an individual who did this all on his own.

So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.

The only the way that you can live and function without seeing the facts in front of you is to put yourself in a constant state of denial.

Great repressions create dualities.

Never underestimate the power of denial.

Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.

The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.

You can't be sure there's not a God, so why live your life in hatred or the denial of that. It's better to be open to the possibility of it. Just because the whole conceit of scientism... is that our world is explained by two atoms smashing, right? Our green planet came out of that. But I just don't buy where the original line comes back to, those two atoms. The explanations aren't fully in yet.

It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.

There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.

Self-denial is the best riches.

I think all of us are living in denial of our spiritual nature as we continue to participate in the material world even though we know we're destroying the planet we live on.