Ignoring Reality Quotes

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Our—Islam’s—problems didn’t start with the dastardly Crusaders. Our problems started with us. To this day, Muslims use the white man as a weapon of mass distraction—a distraction from the fact that we have never needed the “oppressive” West to oppress our own.

The only the way that you can live and function without seeing the facts in front of you is to put yourself in a constant state of denial.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.

Any refusal to recognize reality, for any reason whatever, has disastrous consequences. There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think. Don't ignore your own desires.... Don't sacrifice them. Examine their cause. There is a limit to how much you should have to bear.

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

We as Americans and as humans have very selective hearing and very selective memory. We only hear what we want to hear and disregard the rest.

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

I don't believe you get to just act like things didn't happen because it's uncomfortable or sad.

His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.

The world is a dysfunctional place in so many ways. It is unstable. So even though that chaos can be reflected in our own homes, I suppose we have to fight that by creating our own versions of safety, which can also turn into ignoring the state of the world.

Don't face the facts.

Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?

Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.

Once upon a time, I thought denial was a river in Egypt. It's actually the attitude of the Abbott government.

Trump's lying, his self-regard, his self-soothing, his lack of empathy, his narcissistic rage, his contempt for norms, rules, laws, facts and simple truths - have all come home to roost.

If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.

One of the reasons why my album is called 'Forget the World' is because when you listen to the world, you make stupid mistakes.

Sentimentality works by our seeing only what we want to see.

Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!

Those who put blinders on their eyes should remember that the set also includes bridle and a whip.