Denial Quotes

Wonder is not a Pollyanna stance, not a denial of reality; wonder is an acknowledgement of the power of the mind to transform, to notice, to decide what experience shall mean.

Precisely because white denial has long trumped claims of racism, people of color tend to underreport their experiences with racial bias rather than exaggerate them.

There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets.

employers sense in me a denial of their values...they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to function in a century which i loathe.

When it comes to success, it will come when it comes. A delay does not mean a denial.

We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.

The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

All goals apart from the means are illusions; becoming is a denial of being.

Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting them to come forward to get help.

America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade to reform and renew our country, its institutions and political system.

The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.

Delayed answers to prayer are not only trials of faith; they also give us opportunities to honor God through our steadfast confidence in Him, even when facing the apparent denial of our request.

Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you.

The abuse dies in a day; but the denial slays the life of the people and entombs the hope of the race.

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

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

Denial is a save now, pay later scheme.

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

God's delays are not God's denials.

It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.

Whatever the color of a man's skin, we are all mankind. So every denial of freedom, of equal opportunity for a livelihood, or for an education, diminishes me.

Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.

The principle of realism means denial of the ideal.

Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.

The first lesson in Christ's school is self-denial.

If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore our country to greatness.

If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.

When we turn our backs on feelings we should deal with, they fester and grow and ultimately consume us. Silence is denial. Silence is anxiety.

The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.

But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us.

The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves.

Holocaust denial is not only a falsification of history, it is an expression of anti-Semitism.

The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it?

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.

The denial of racism is a form of racism itself.

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

I'll never forget the day that I was told I would have to have a mastectomy. My reaction to the words was total denial.

Without the renewed mind, we will distort the Scriptures to avoid their radical commands for self-denial, and love, and purity, and supreme satisfaction in Christ alone.

There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.

For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial.

It is the idea that all order must be explained by a functioning mind at the helm, not its denial, that has the closet affinity to the religious instinct.

Debate is so much better than denial.

I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.

It is deeply pejorative to call someone a "climate change denier". This is because it is a phrase designedly reminiscent of the idea of Holocaust Denial.

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

I will usually be in denial about that, too, because I really don't like that. Sometimes I will recognize it and sometimes someone will say, "are you okay?" And then you think, "Oh, maybe I'm not."

All human kingship risks a denial of the sovereignty of God.

Almost everywhere, climate change denial now looks as stupid and as unacceptable as Holocaust denial.