Lack of understanding Quote by George Orwell

“He realized how easy it was to present an appearance of orthodoxy while having no grasp whatever of what orthodoxy meant. In a way,…

— George Orwell

“They had all glossed over what was wrong and declined to acknowledge reality.”

— Ken Follett

In a way, the world−view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept…

— George Orwell

“They were evidently people on a low, material plane of existence, and quite incapable of appreciating the symbolic value of sensuous phenomena.”

— Oscar Wilde

“No sane person could witness what they saw every day in the field, or carry out the acts of violence they were tasked with,…

— Ronie Kendig

“Any refusal to recognize reality, for any reason whatever, has disastrous consequences. There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think.”

— Ayn Rand

“knowledge and fact meant nothing to people who were subjected to an adequate dose of fear and prejudice. This simple-mindedness was the most disturbing”

— Annelie Wendeberg

“since his mind no longer entertained any lofty ideals, he had ceased to believe in (although he could not have expressly denied) their reality.…

— Marcel Proust

“How can people stay sane in a world that makes no sense?”

— Margarita Engle

“Some are imprisoned by their own perception of reality.”

— Steven Redhead

“They have neither thought nor being, and merely repeat indifferently and uncomprehendingly everything they hear, retaining within themselves an absolute void.”

— Anonymous

“Yet in one sense they can miss it: that is, by failing to focus on it, even when in general terms they are aware…

— J.I. Packer