Denial of Truth Quotes

The past is the present, isn't it? It's the future, too. We all try to lie out of that but life won't let us

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

Media bias is one thing. Rejection of reality is another

The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists.

It is said that ridicule is the test of truth; but it is never applied except when we wish to deceive ourselves - when if we cannot exclude the light, we would fain draw the curtain before it. The sneer springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be, that wishes to take refuge in doubt.

... a widespread secularization increasingly descends into a moral, intellectual, and spiritual nihilism that denies not only the One who is the Truth but the very idea of truth itself.

The interesting thing about fake news and fake media is that it's a heresy against reality. Again, as a Catholic, I was taught that the greatest sin was heresy. Because not only are you a sinner, you are proselytizing and inviting other people into your sinful state through your heresy. You're a recruiter for your own fallen state. Donald Trump is a heretic against reality. Basically, he's lying for sport. He's inviting people into his heresy that there is no objective reality.

In the long run, it is far more dangerous to adhere to illusion than to face what the actual fact is.

Progress, then, is a property of the evolution of life as a whole by almost any conceivable intuitive standard.... let us not pretend to deny in our philosophy what we know in our hearts to be true.

One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.

Efforts to conceal the truth will not and do not negate the facts.

It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.

Once the truth is denied to human beings, it is pure illusion to try to set them free. Truth and freedom either go together hand in hand or together they perish in misery.

The last sin, the sin against the Holy Ghost - to lie to oneself. Lying to other people - that's a small thing in comparison.

There is something feeble, and a little contemptible, about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost inevitably some part of him is aware that they are myths and that he believes them only because they are comforting. But he dare not face this thought, and he therefore cannot carry his own reflection to any logical conclusion.

Denial is a powerful force.

He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.

There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.

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

People may refuse to see the truth of our arguments, but they cannot evade the evidence of a holy life.

How sad, that the group with the most access to the truth chose in several strategic instances to look the other way.

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. I am a specialist, God help me, in events in inner space and time, in experiences called thoughts, images, reveries, dreams, visions, hallucinations, dreams of memories, memories of dreams, memories of visions, dreams of hallucinations, refractions of refractions of refractions of that original Alpha and Omega of experience and reality, that Reality on whose repression, denial, splitting, projection, falsification, and general desecration and profanation our civilisation as much as anything is based.