Ignoring Truth Quotes

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.

Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure life by the largest things; and ends by measuring it by the smallest thing of all.

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

Though we claim to believe the whole of Scripture, in practice we frequently deny much of it by ignoring it.

Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision--the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths.

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story ...man [is] so avid for knowledge that everything that he touches turns to facts; his faith becomes theology; his love becomes lechery; his wisdom becomes science; pursuing meaning, he ignores truth.