Quotes About Denying Reality

#1. We can deny reality, but we can't deny the consequences of denying reality.

Richard Paul Evans

#2. Human beings invent myth, ideology, and religion as means of denying reality and replacing death with palliative fantasies. Helplessness and death are blows to human narcissism. Human beings create illusions about themselves, lie to themselves as a means to feel secure and less vulnerable.

Jerry Piven

#3. Anyone who says there is not a change in weather patterns is denying reality.

Andrew Cuomo

#4. Familialism consists of magically denying social reality, and avoiding all connections with the actual flux.

Felix Guattari

#5. Dick Mills was in charge of sound effects and all the rest then, and he put the voice through a ring modulator or whatever gizmos he'd got at the time to make it sound a little more electronic.

John Leeson

#6. To put the matter bluntly, no sense at all can be made of the virtue of purity if sodomy is countenanced or even celebrated. That is because the virtue is founded in reality, and the vice depends upon denying the reality.

Anthony Esolen

#7. Whenever you feel compelled to put others first at the expense of yourself, you are denying your own reality, your own identity.

David Stafford

#8. The process of leniency involves accepting the reality of the current situation and finding a satisfying meaning therein, as opposed to misconstruing or denying the facts of the situation.

Sandra L. Schneider

#9. Denying realism amounts to megalomania.

Karl R. Popper

#10. I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

Garrison Keillor

#11. Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.

Charles Curtis

#12. In the absence of a Congress ready to act to reduce gun violence, we will keep working to create a different Congress.

Gabrielle Giffords

#13. It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires, and who can doubt that the interest we have in admitting or denying the reality of the Judgement to come determines the faith of most men in accordance with their hopes and fears.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#14. The more we refine our understanding of God to make the concept plausible, the more it seems pointless.

Steven Weinberg

#15. Denial does not change reality for everyone else. Only for the one denying and those who are foolish enough to believe the fantasy.

Elle Casey

#16. Faith isn't denying the reality of your circumstances; faith is denying these circumstances the right to remain in control of your life.

Dutch Sheets

#17. I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.

Henry David Thoreau

#18. My final advice for young people is to not wait for leadership from adult politicians. Step forward today, because our current leaders are denying the dire reality we are facing. Leadership can come form anywhere.

Kumi Naidoo

#19. In the Friend-place nothing true can be said. Let Me Just Be Here.

Rumi

#20. It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.

Jonathan Edwards

#21. Beware of confining yourself to a particular belief and denying all else, for much good would elude you - indeed, the knowledge of reality would elude you. Be in yourself a matter for all forms of belief, for God is too vast and tremendous to be restricted to one belief rather than another.

Ibn Arabi

#22. There was no denying the reality of this situation. The exquisite ecstasy of having an honest-to-God, flesh-and-blood c#ck inside. Dream symbolisms and explanations be damned. This was bliss.

Jess Dee

#23. My decisions determine my destination long before I ever get there. And once I do get there, I suddenly realize this is not the destination I had in mind because what I had in mind was the fantasy that my denial had created verses the reality my choices crafted.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#24. You're human. You'll screw up. Denying that is crazy. Forgiving yourself has all the benefits of self-esteem without making you a narcissist that's out of touch with reality.

David D. Burns

#25. Spin' is a polite word for deception. Spinners mislead by means that range from subtle omissions to outright lies. Spin paints a false picture of reality by bending facts, mischaracterizing the words of others, ignoring or denying crucial evidence, or just 'spinning a yarn' - by making things up.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson