Quotes About Denying Truth

#1. Try as we do to resist what we're given, this is the only doorway to truth. We waste too much time and energy denying or fighting where we find ourselves.

Mark Nepo

#2. Professors and students claim to be on a quest for truth while denying that it exists or that anyone could identify it if it did. Such is the nihilistic atmosphere in major universities around the world.

Dave Hunt

#3. Forget our fate...

Colapesce

#4. There's no point in denying the truth when the truth is self-evident.

M.R. Carey

#5. Denial and affirmation are games which people play.
There are people who deny that they are capable of denying, and who would insist that people do not insist.

Idries Shah

#6. Denying the truth would solve nothing.

James Dashner

#7. There's a part of everyone that needs to be taken care of. Denying it exists doesn't change the truth, it only makes you very lonely.

Katherine Allred

#8. Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the truth by ignoring facts.

John Green

#9. Truth, when we are fortunate enough to find it, is like bad-tasting medicine. It rarely comes as a pleasant surprise, because if it surprises us, it means we've been denying it for some time and have a lot of beliefs based on falsehood. It's hard to give up those beliefs.

Orson Scott Card

#10. Riding on the coat tails of another is denying your ability to lead your own life.

Truth Devour

#11. There was something twisting in his gut that he wanted to deny and couldn't. It was like a knife in him that he could not remove lest he bleed to death.

Hazel B. West

#12. Nothing good ever comes out of denying the truth about our situation.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#13. You must be filled with expectancy. You must be awash in hope. You must wonder who will love you, whom you will love next.

Kate DiCamillo

#14. She told me about rolling hills covered with cornfields and treeless miles of land without water. I dreamt of cornfields dotted with yellow rosebushes

A. LaFaye

#15. We wanted to see this country win the war just as much as those advisors did. We felt we would help to do that by reporting the truth. And so there was the moral outrage over this general and the ambassador in Saigon who kept denying the truth we would see.

Neil Sheehan

#16. He put my fingertips to his mouth and kissed them. Licked the trace of blood away. Made them clean.
Then I knew the truth I had been denying. He made me clean. Dan made me clean and shining and bright. He made me beautiful, and I did not want to lose him.

Megan Hart

#17. No class or group or party in Germany could escape its share of responsibility for the abandonment of the democratic Republic and the advent of Adolf Hitler. The cardinal error of the Germans who opposed Nazism was their failure to unite against it.

William L. Shirer

#18. He looked down at the mask hanging around his neck. So simple a lie, and he could walk freely throughout the world.
But would he then be trapped within the web of his own deception? What freedom could he find in denying the truth about himself?

R.A. Salvatore

#19. I don't know if real courage lies in storming barricades or simply not denying the truth.

Josh Lanyon

#20. Victim-stancing - whereby the offender claims and believes that s/he is the real victim (one of the most prevalent sophistries in the false memory controversies)

Harvey L. Schwartz

#21. The gnosis of God is intermediate between immoderation, which is ascribing human characteristics to God, and negligence, which is denying any attributes to God ... The Truth lies in the balance between the two extremes.

Ibn Ata Allah

#22. The truth is the most desirable woman in the world and we are the most jealous lovers, reflexively denying anyone else the slightest glimpse of her.

Tana French

#23. More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them

Harold J. Smith

#24. We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition, what we might call the costs of pretending not to be mad.

Ernest Becker

#25. For the first time perhaps ever, I am not denying the truth of all of my cracks. I am living them.

Lisa Renee Jones

#26. The things you can take with you: Love, Trust, Respect, Joy,.
The things you leave behind: Everything else.

Robert Charles Waldron

#27. How old must you be before words can no longer fool you?

Marty Rubin

#28. Fascists rejected reason in the name of will, denying objective truth in favor of a glorious myth articulated by leaders who claimed to give voice to the people.

Timothy Snyder