Best 655 quotes in «denial quotes» category

There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets.

There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.

There has to be some self-denial.

There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears.

There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.

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

There's no denial that one's gender orientation is certainly a core characteristic of any person, but it's not the only one.

There is no proof nor yet any denial. We were, we are, and we will be.

There's no question that [Donald] Trump got elected because of rural America. And our party still is in denial. They don't get it.

The speed of the human mind is remarkable. So is its inability to face the obvious.

There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machinelike. They'll refute this, but I've been around it. I know.

The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction

The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of human thought to their hiding places, and in this pursuit it may finally end in denial or a frank admission of the incapacity of pure reason to reach the ultimate reality.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

... the understatement, the self-ridicule, the delight in the foreignness of foreigners, the complete denial of any attempt to enlist the sympathies of his readers in the hardships he has capriciously invited.

The weather today is an increasing trend towards denial.

The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves.

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment.

the very notion of blindness about color constitutes an ideological confusion at best, and denial at its very worst.

The whole story of human and personal progress is an unmitigated tale of denials today-denials of rest, denials or repose and comfort and ease and pleasure-that tomorrow may be richer.

The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be the truth, that of all secular professions this has the highest standards.

They that do much themselves deny, Receive more blessings from the sky.

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

This is why the anti-discrimination principle being enforced is important. Because it won't stop if some of the underlying biases aren't challenged and surfaced. And that in and of itself creates backlash and denial. This is what I mean when I say better is hard.

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

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

Though [Charles Guignebert] could not accept either the Christ myth theory, which held that no historical Jesus existed, or the Dutch Radical denial that Paul authored any of the epistles, Guignebert took both quite seriously.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

To be resigned means to find satisfaction in self-denial (Self-denial is the denial of one's lower self).

To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.

To have your attention in the Now is not a denial of what is needed in your life. It is recognition of what is primary.

To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society.

To live with the terrible truths about ourselves is the only way of not living them out. A need denied has infinitely more power than a need accepted.

Too sick and freaked out not to want a bullet for every passer by, too sick and freaked out to breathe, too sick and freaked out to care, too sick and freaked out to think of anything but the annihilation of my mind and denial of my life. So sick and freaked out that I think everyone is my friend.

To survive you must surrender without giving in, that is to say, fully accept the reality in all its horror and never give up the will to survive. That allows you to quickly adapt to the situation and dedicate yourself to the present moment rather than wallow in denial.

To recognize that you are radically free, in Sartre's sense, but then to live as if you weren't, is to live in bad faith, in denial of what you know to be true. And that's not something anyone can sensibly want to do.

To the right person, the person who is truly born to it, duty is a form of love, through which all is possible. Duty is not always a denial of things, but an expansion of them to others. Duty is not always a chore, but is best carried out with love.

We need to pay as much attention to improper denials as we do to improper grants.

We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us

We figure out what death means when we're born, practically, and we live our whole lives in some kind of weird denial about it.

Washington is the place where nobody believes a rumor until it has been officially denied.

We're not citizens anymore. We're consumers. That's what we're called. It's just like being an alcoholic and being in denial that you're an alcoholic. We're in denial that each and every one of us is the problem. And until we face up to that, nothing's going to happen.

What I mean by "An Unspoken Hunger." It's a hunger that cannot be quelled by material things. It's a hunger that cannot be quelled by the constant denial.

Whether we like it or not, each of us is constrained by limits on what we can do and feel. To ignore these limits leads to denial and eventually to failure. To achieve excellence, we must first understand the reality of the everyday, with all its demands

When I found out I was having twins, I was even in denial that I was pregnant. When I found out I was having twins I just laughed. "Of course this would happen!" I started giggling.

Whereas the notion of purpose before was always associated with future, there is now a deeper purpose that can only be found in the present, through denial of time.

What is even more worrying still is George Osborne's breathtakingly complacent response to today's figures. This is a Chancellor who is in total denial.

What’s looming in the shadows of our ignorance and denial is a critique of civilization itself.

What we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive actions on experience...It is radically estranged from the structure of being.