Deny The Truth Quotes

#1. We all tell lies to protect our solitude. We deny the truth and present a false image of ourselves to blend into society.

Saleem Haddad

#2. Don't you know that if you deny the truth about yourself you lose your soul?

Ken Follett

#3. Whenever someone tries to deny the truth, ultimately, reality betrays him.

Gregory Koukl

#4. However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.

George Orwell

#5. (5) [O YOU who deny the truth!] Should We, perchance, withdraw this reminder from you altogether, seeing that you are people bent on wasting your own selves?

Anonymous

#6. But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. Such 'wisdom' does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice" (James 3:14

Craig Groeschel

#7. The individual benefits as an individual from his ability to deny the truth even though society as a whole, of which he is a part, suffers.

Garrett Hardin

#8. Do not deny the truth.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. Part of me wants to ignore the wrongness and just believe him, but then I'd be pretending as much as he is. No matter how much I want to deny the truth, it gets more obvious every day that he's a drowning man clinging to a sinking raft.

Anonymous

#10. Reason forbade me many things which,
Instinctively, my nature was attracted to;
And a perpetual loss I feel if, knowing,
I believe a falsehood or deny the truth.

Abu'l-A'la Al-Ma'arri

#11. Ghost stories are always listened to and well received in private, but pitilessly disavowed in public. For my own part, ignorant as I am of the way in which the human spirit enters the world and the way in which he goes out of it, I dare not deny the truth of many such narratives.

Immanuel Kant

#12. We may deny the truth of our childhoods while we are living them, but we one day realize the truth of our parents as readily as we do that of Santa. Neither are as perfect as our memories would have them ...

Thomm Quackenbush

#13. If we look upon awaking as an end or a goal to be accomplished, we deny the truth of presence.

Albert Low

#14. To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#15. It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that
I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the
truth at all.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#16. The church and the scientific community are fighting at times a common enemy: the truth religion cannot deny and the positivist materialist scientist is unable to explain.

Paul Greene

#17. The truth is the truth, the only prize worth having. If you deny it, you're only showing that you're unworthy of it.

M.R. Carey

#18. The truth is harsh." Anubis said. "Spirits come to the Hall of Judgement all the time, and they cannot let go of their lies. They deny their faults, their true feelings, their mistakes ... right up until Ammit devours their souls for eternity. It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.

Rick Riordan

#19. I was the one thing
he had to deny--
the beautiful truth
within his
terrible lie.
-who knew such a young heart could shatter?

Amanda Lovelace

#20. Satre found atheism 'cruel', Camus 'dreadful', and Nietzsche 'maddening'. Atheists who consistently try to live without God tend to commit suicide or go insane. Those who are inconsistent live on the ethical or aesthetic shadow of Christian truth while they deny the reality that made the shadow.

Norman Geisler

#21. The Light in you is the unalterable truth of who you are. You can deny it and obscure it, but you cannot uncreate it.

Marianne Williamson

#22. Mr. Lyell's system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and he denies a great deal which is equally true; which is the general characteristic of all systems not embracing the whole truth.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#23. When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabrication and you will still believe whatever truth is in it, because you can not deny truth no matter how shabbily it is dressed.

Orson Scott Card

#24. Without a need to constantly remain attached to ideas and beliefs, the clarity of your formless form recognizes the truth of itself - with nothing to confirm or ever deny.

Matthew Kahn

#25. You can run from the truth. You can run and hide from the truth.
You can deny and avoid the truth. But you cannot destroy the truth. Nor can you make the lie true. You must know that love will always uncover the truth.

Delano Johnson

#26. Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which they will maintain out of their zeal for truth, although they contradict themselves every day of their lives.

Jonathan Swift

#27. [ ... ] when you know, you know. And you don't fight it. You don;t deny the inevitable. You free fall because you know there's someone there to catch you on the other side.

S.L. Jennings

#28. Whenever you deny the hand of Justice, Violence almost always steps in.

Suzy Kassem

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

Antonio Machado

#30. The powers and principalities would hold less sway over our lives if we refused to collaborate with them. But refusal is risky, so we deny our own truth, take up lives of "self-impersonation," and betray our identities.2

Parker J. Palmer

#31. People don't change. We only convince ourselves they change. We deny what we can't accept. We are only as smart as we are willing to see the truth.

Katie Kacvinsky

#32. Joanna wondered if so elegant a man could, in truth, be a pirate.
Still, she could not deny the air of mystery about him or the intense fire in his dark eyes.
'Twas as if Lucifer himself had paid them a visit.

Regan Walker

#33. There cannot be even the smallest grain of falsehood in it or it is not truth. I have discovered the source of all truth; how can I deny what I know?

Stephen R. Lawhead

#34. There's a saying in the scientific community, that every great truth goes through three phases. First, people deny it. Second, they say that it conflicts with the Bible. Third, they say that they've known it all along.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#35. I have every right. You were born to be mine. And you wish to deny me the right to say how I feel, to speak the truth?

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#36. In short, whoever does violence to truth or its expression eventually mutilates justice, even though he thinks he is serving it. From this point of view, we shall deny to the very end that a press is true because it is revolutionary; it will be revolutionary only if it is true, and never otherwise.

Albert Camus

#37. But man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#38. You think you see the truth because people let you believe it. If you accuse a Herrani of a lie, do you think he will dare deny it?

Marie Rutkoski

#39. Alas, alas, that ever love was sin! I ever followed natural inclination Under the power of my constellation And was unable to deny, in truth, My chamber of Venus to a likely youth.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#40. There is no flaw or vacuum in the amount of the truth - but all is truth without exception; And henceforth I will go celebrate any thing I see or am, And sing and laugh and deny nothing.

Walt Whitman

#41. Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.

Madeleine L'Engle

#42. The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.

Judith Lewis Herman

#43. How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?

Curt Weldon

#44. If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying.

Howard Gardner

#45. Showing a greater fondness for their own opinions than for truth, they sought to deny and disprove the new things which, if they had cared to look for themselves, their own senses would have demonstrated to them.

Galileo Galilei

#46. Pain is inevitable, from this perspective, but suffering is an optional extra, resulting from our attachments, which represent our attempt to try to deny the unavoidable truth that everything is impermanent.

Oliver Burkeman

#47. I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.

Samuel Johnson

#48. Conscientious stupidity is a religion for most. Many will deny it, but it's those same people that find it easier to ignore the truth. This religion can only be followed by their humble ignorance. It's safe to assume, that this religion is an illusion of knowledge.

Lionel Suggs

#49. The truth is, we never make for others the allowance we make for ourselves; and we should deny even our own words, could we hear them spoken by another.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#50. To deny the reality of things is to miss their reality; to assert the emptiness of things is to miss their reality. The more you talk and think about it, the further astray you wander from the truth. Stop talking and thinking and there is nothing you will not be able to know.

Sengcan

#51. It is further an admitted historical truth, which no one denies, that such an institution putting forth such a claim has been present among mankind for many centuries. Many through antagonism or lack of knowledge deny the identity of the Catholic Church today with the original Christian society.

Hilaire Belloc

#52. To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

Oscar Wilde