The definition of being stupid: seeing the truth, knowing the truth, and choosing to still believe the lies. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...So Englishmen saw it. Lincoln's insincerity was regarded as proven by two things: his earlier denial of any lawful right or wish… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
“It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop… — Flora Rheta Schreiber Copy Share Image
... so large a portion of those who hold much capital, instead of using their various advantages for the greatest good of… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Women's genetic celebrity power magnifies men's protector instinct. It inspires the government-as-substitute-husband. Men's addiction to the genetic celebrity is either invisible or… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
That which distinguishes the new thought from the old is not a denial of this Divine Reality, but an affirmation of its… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
“Michael Delaney used to be fat. Not puppy-padding fat—bursting-frankfurts-in-a-boiling-pot fat. He remembered gym class and swimming lessons. All of the thin guys… — Aaron Dries Copy Share Image
Denial has been a way of life for me for many years. I actually believe in denial. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I deeply understand the history of civil rights and the horrendous impact that relentless and systemic discrimination and the denial of voting… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
The denial of "self" challenges only the notion of a static self independent of body and mind-not the ordinary sense of ourself… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
"True science has no belief," says Dr. Fenwick, in Bulwer-Lytton's 'Strange Story;' "true science knows but three states of mind: denial, conviction,… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
If the denial of death is self-hatred, as it is to deny our freedom and live in fear of death (which is… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
“Some readers may find it a curious or even unscientific endeavour to craft a criminological model of organised abuse based on the… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering,… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress:… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
When I hear so-called professional journalists ask why we have celebrities speak for us and for the animals, the environment or social… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
“Survival depends on denial, and death comes swiftly to those who forsake it.” — B.G. Bowers Copy Share Image
Even strong as they are today, rich countries should have no illusion: nobody is safe in aworld of injustices.War will never bring… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Copy Share Image
“DENIAL Defense mechanism in which the existence of unpleasant realities is disavowed; refers to keeping out of conscious awareness any aspects of… — Benjamin Sadock Copy Share Image
The key to success is to not take rejection personally, to know that having faith counts the most when we feel scared… — Mastin Kipp Copy Share Image
The chief evil with relation to the body is love for the body and pitying it. This takes away all the soul's… — Theophan the Recluse Copy Share Image
