Deny Quotes

Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!

If you deny the existence of your fault or error, it will strengthen its hold over you.

I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.

Many of us knuckle-dragging brush-painters think that 'behind the times' is part of our job description. Why deny ourselves the authentic journey of a time-honoured form?

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

Love as a power can go anywhere. It isn't sentimental. It doesn't have to be pretty, yet it doesn't deny pain.

I’ll always deny that I kissed her. I was just whispering into her mouth.

We're animals, I think we forget that. I think there is an ancient archetypal memory that still exists within us. If we deny that, what is the cost? So I do think it's what binds us as human beings.

Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.

The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything

They that do much themselves deny, Receive more blessings from the sky.

I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything...

It's hard to deny talent. If you're good, you're good.

Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.

Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.

Wrong people are wrong because they use their freedom to deny it to others.

To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.

There are just some things that you can't deny.

When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny.

The probability that we face global warming caused by fossil fuels is now so overwhelming that it is legitimate to doubt the motives of those who deny it

To seek Truth is to deny Truth to being with. To seek Truth is to avoid Truth, constantly.

Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.

Those who are already feeling the effects of climate change don't have time to deny it - they're busy dealing with it.

Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science.

No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.

Like most Chinese, I am basically a fatalist - too sophisticated for religion and too superstitious to deny the gods.

Stiff-necked fools, you think you are cool to deny me for simplicity.

Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.

Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.

to deny that music powerfully influences our thoughts and conduct is either ignorant or a deliberate lie. Anyone who listens to music has been moved by it. It's music, that's the point.

Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.

Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

You'll never get to be a saint if you deny the bit of the devil in you.

It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.

In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion.

Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.

I'm not like the Brexiteers. I don't deny that we have to permit immigration and the right of establishment for capital and services.

The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them.

Whenever someone tries to deny the truth, ultimately, reality betrays him.

The Savior warns that if we start along the path and go far enough and then fail and deny Him, it would have been better if we had never begun.

Every day the choice is presented to us, to live up to the spirit that is in us, or deny it.

When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.

Don't accept excuses; totally deny the status quo.

There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state. -(from "The Bicentennial Man) story)

I'm a scamp. I don't deny it. I like myself.

That is not a just government where arbitrary restrictions, exemptions, and monopolies deny to part of its citizens that free use of their faculties, and free choice of their occupations.

I refuse to confirm or deny anything about any deal to purchase an American NHL franchise and move it to Canada until I've completed all of the paperwork and the deal is closed.

We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction.