Ignoring the Truth Quotes

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Wishful thinking is no substitute for reality.

When your head is firmly in the sand, another part of your anatomy is fully exposed.

But when a man suspects any wrong it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself. And much this way it was with me. I said nothing and tried to think nothing.

… the pain we have suffered would have been for naught—and we would only be putting off until some later time an even more painful day of reckoning.

Hope is the denial of reality.

We resent being faced with facts we'd prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven't.

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

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

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

None so blind as those who will not see.

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

Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.

You keep on trying to airbrush history.

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.

Well, my whole thing with gossip is I couldn't care less if it's true.

Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist... why would you want to?

Many people find bald, unvarnished truths so disturbing, they prefer to ram their heads in the sand and start dreaming at the first sign of scientific reality.

If you fear and you don't admit it, that's when you're lying to yourself.

Sometimes loving eyes don't see what they don't want to see.

As a country, we like to ignore our past. We don't like to look at it.

I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at erasing reality.

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.