Quotes About Avoiding The Truth

#1. Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.

Fay Weldon

#2. I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize.

Sylvia Kristel

#3. It's amazing how our brains can create all kinds of ways of avoiding the truth. Especially when there's something you just don't want to face about yourself, or someone you love. We never get tired of running from ourselves. Never get tired of making excuses.

Jeff Lemire

#4. You will gain energy by meditating deeply, by speaking the truth, by learning to be still and by avoiding the crowd, most of the time, not all of the time.

Frederick Lenz

#5. Well, it is true. Sometimes avoiding something can give it more and more meaning rather than less and less.

Tom McNeal

#6. There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.

Errol Morris

#7. An unconscious, gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies, by withholding some of the truth about themselves and their feelings in order to avoid conflict. Pseudocommunity is conflict-avoiding; true community is conflict-resolving.

M. Scott Peck

#8. There's something peculiar about artists. They have ups and downs ... After a while everything you do is just wonderful ... then you slide back. If you're a good artist you're going to go down. And then it's up to you.

Milton Resnick

#9. Emotional intelligence does not mean merely "being nice". At strategic moment it may demand not "being nice", but rather, for example, bluntly confronting someone with an uncomfortable but consequential truth they've been avoiding.

Daniel Goleman

#10. This is biblical ethics. It has little to do with the middle-class ethics of avoiding a few things which are supposed to be wrong and doing a few things which are supposed to be right. Biblical ethics means standing in ultimate decisions for or against God.

Paul Tillich

#11. The truth is, normal might take years. Normal might never happen. But it's definitely not going to happen if I lounge around here watching soaps and avoiding life. I'm going to school today, end of story.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#12. it wasn't that we had been so brave or bold, but that we'd simply traded one fear for another - afraid of what we were about to do for the fear of what we might not. "How

Craig Johnson

#13. He was sorry for himself as well, for he was doomed to find life and identity in death letters.

Mahesh Poudyal

#14. Being kind to animals is not enough. Avoiding cruelty is not enough. Housing animals in more comfortable, larger cages is not enough. Whether we exploit animals to eat, to wear, to entertain us, or to learn, the truth of animal rights requires empty cages, not larger cages.

Tom Regan

#15. When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself.

Deepak Chopra

#16. The inventor is a man who looks around upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea. The spirit of invention possesses him, seeking materialization.

Alexander Graham Bell

#17. There were so many desperate people on the streets crying for help that you had to shut off your heart or the pain would be too much. After a while you don't care anymore. And that is what hell is like.

Yeonmi Park

#18. One woman was sure that her father would appear on her front steps and try to kill her. In actuality, he hid from her after that, avoiding her totally. He was scared of her. You may not realize it, but you hold a lot of power when you tell the truth.

Ellen Bass

#19. This, however, is of but little importance to our tale; it will be enough not to stray a hair's breadth from the truth in the telling of it.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#20. I can't really say I'm batting badly. I'm not batting long enough to be batting badly

Greg Chappell

#21. I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need people around me who'll support me and believe in me and tell me the truth and not let me deceive myself into avoiding the what's scary and hard and necessary.

Victoria Moran

#22. To tell you the truth, I've just been avoiding everything.

Stephen Chbosky

#23. Life is not about avoiding fear but about overcoming fear.

Debasish Mridha

#24. In time, and as one comes to benefit from experience, one learns that things will turn out neither as well as one hoped nor as badly as one feared.

Jerome Bruner

#25. Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It's being content to listen to the entire thought of someone rather than waiting impatiently for your chance to respond.

Richard Carlson

#26. The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day and age it is tenable to have these nods and winks, and on-the-record and off-the-record briefings.

Charles Kennedy

#27. It can be difficult to face the truth. And there's never a "good time" to face a difficult truth. So, I put it off for a better time, and become a prisoner of my own fear. It's the middle of Lent. There couldn't be a better time to face whatever truth I've been avoiding.

Ken Untener

#28. There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth

Gilbert K. Chesterton