"Denial" Quotes . Top 32 Short Quotes About "Denial"

"Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial of equal rights of menours began, by affirming those rights. They said, some men are too ignorant, and vicious, to share in government. Possibly so, said we; and, by your system, you would always keep them ignorant, and vicious. We proposed to give all a chance; and we expected the weak to grow stronger, the ignorant wiser; and all better, and happier together."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Affirming #Said #Share

"I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I'm not sure how exactly we could manage."

--- Abraham Verghese

#Thinking #Manage #Residents

"Many spiritual people are involved in a radical denial of what is happening. They want to transcend it, get rid of it, get out of it, get away from it. There's nothing wrong with that feeling, but the approach doesn't work because it's escapism in spiritual clothing. It's wearing spiritual clothing and spiritual concepts, but it is really no different than a drunk in the gutter who doesn't want to feel the pain anymore. When you abide and accept everything completely and fully, you automatically go beyond."

--- Adyashanti

#People #Get Away #Escapism

"Deep down we all suspect that something is very wrong with the way we perceive life but we try very, very hard not to notice it. And the way we remain blind to our frightful condition is through an obsessive and pathological denial of being -- as if some dreadful fate would overcome us if we were to face the pure light of truth and lay bare our fearful clinging to illusion."

--- Adyashanti

#Suspects #Fate #Obsessive

"It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial."

--- Agatha Christie

#Acknowledge #Belief #Secret

"I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use having illusions about her. Sheila was a liar and probably always would be a liar. It was her way of fighting for survival--the quick easy glib denial. It was a child's weapon--and she'd probably never got out of using it. If I wanted Sheila, I must accept her as she was--be at hand to prop up the weak places. We've all got our weak places. Mine were different from Sheila's, but they were there."

--- Agatha Christie

#Fighting #Accepting #Sheila

"Any objection to the carryings on of our present gold-calf Christianity is met with the triumphant reply, ‘But we are winning them!’ Winning them to what? To true discipleship? To cross-carrying? To self-denial? To separation from the world? To crucifixion of the flesh? To holy living? To hard self-discipline ? To love for God? To total committal to Christ? Of course the answer to all these questions is...No."

--- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Mets #Answers #Crucifixion

"We love the old saints, missionaries, martyrs, and reformers. Our Luthers, Bunyans, Wesleys and Asburys, etc... We will write their biographies, reverence their memories, frame their epitaphs, and build their monuments. We will do anything except imitate them. We cherish the last drop of their blood, but watch carefully over the first drop of our own."

--- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Lasts #Memories #Writing

"You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay. But adult love means you’re not in denial, and you want the loved one to be the best they can be."

--- Al Franken

#Mean #Children Love #Being The Best

"When it comes to climate, we can all make a big difference. At the most basic level, don't let denial go unchallenged and win the conversation on climate."

--- Al Gore

#Differences #Bigs #Levels

"In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality. And the Category 5 denial is an enormous obstacle to any discussion of solutions. Nobody is interested in solutions if they don’t think there’s a problem. Given that starting point, I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis."

--- Al Gore

#Thinking #Unreality #Opening Up

"A lot of people go straight from denial to despair without pausing in the middle and doing something about it."

--- Al Gore

#People #Despair #Climate Change

"If the world had two gods, it would surely go to ruin-this is the first premise. Now it is known that it has not gone to ruin-this is the second premise. From these premises the conclusion must of necessity follow, that is, the denial of two gods."

--- Al-Ghazali

#Known #God #World

"Never underestimate the power of denial."

--- Alan Ball

#Never Underestimate #Beauty #Denial

"Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free."

--- Alan Cohen

#Believe #Distraction #Denial

"I fear that the impact of university censorship and university denial of due process will be to mis-educate a generation of students away from core values of civil liberties and constitutional safeguards. Students who have been led to believe by university administrators and faculty that censorship and denial of due process are acceptable norms will be more susceptible to accepting those norms in their post-university lives. That would be a tragedy for America."

--- Alan Dershowitz

#Accepting #Values #Censorship

"There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born."

--- Albert Camus

#Truth #May #Born

"Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning."

--- Aldous Huxley

#Economics #Brave New World Freedom #Self

"An important aspect of the Eurasian worldview is an absolute denial of Western civilization. In the opinion of the Eurasians, the West with its ideology of liberalism is an absolute evil."

--- Aleksandr Dugin

#Western #Absolutes #West

"The world will not know liberty until all that is religious and political is transformed into something simple and human and made susceptible to criticism and denial."

--- Alexander Herzen

#Made #Susceptible #World

"This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. Then once again a cry of denial will break from the titanic chest of the revolutionary minority and again a mortal struggle will begin, in which socialism will play the role of contemporary conservatism and will be overwhelmed in the subsequent revolution, as yet unknown to us."

--- Alexander Herzen

#Overwhelmed #Revolutionary #Play

"Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At the same time he asks for His grace, expresses his needs and those of his brothers in suffering. Such a type of prayer demands complete renovation. The modest, the ignorant, and the poor are more capable of this self-denial than the rich and the intellectual."

--- Alexis Carrel

#Asks #Modesty #Marble

"The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity."

--- Alfred Kinsey

#Suppression #Ignorance #Stimulation

"The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.'"

--- Alfred Korzybski

#Therapy #Fundamentals #Cognitive Therapy

"A self-made man, if he is made at all, has already won the battle of life. . . . he has learned to resist. He has learned the value of money, and how to refuse to spend it. He has learned the value of time, and how the conversion of it into useful things will make of his life something worthwhile. He has learned to say no, to say no at the right time and then to stand by it. Without resistance, and the self-denial which it often imposes, there is no real happiness. In the quest for happiness man must learn that temptation resisted strengthens the mind and the soul."

--- Alvin R. Dyer

#Real Happiness #Self Made Man #Soul

"The increasing tendency towards seeing people in terms of one dominant ‘identity’ (‘this is your duty as an American’, ‘you must commit these acts as a Muslim’, or ‘as a Chinese you should give priority to this national engagement’) is not only an imposition of an external and arbitrary priority, but also the denial of an important liberty of a person who can decide on their respective loyalties to different groups (to all of which he or she belongs)."

--- Amartya Sen

#People #Imposition #Term

"REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive."

--- Ambrose Bierce

#Lasts #Finality #Scales

"DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters."

--- Ambrose Bierce

#Respectable #Faith Hope #Daughter

"SACERDOTALIST, n. One who holds the belief that a clergyman is a priest. Denial of this momentous doctrine is the hardest challenge that is now flung into the teeth of the Episcopalian church by the Neo-Dictionarians."

--- Ambrose Bierce

#Episcopalians #Clergymen #Belief

"Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth."

--- Ambrose Bierce

#May #Thorough #Becoming

"Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego."

--- Ambrose Bierce

#Self #Self-denial #Denial

"Sometimes when we read the words of those who have been more than conquerors, we feel almost despondent. I feel that I shall never be like that. But they won through step by step, by little bits of wills, little denials of self, little inward victories, by faithfulness in very little things. They became what they are. No one sees these little hidden steps. They only see the accomplishment, but even so, those small steps were taken. There is no sudden triumph, no spiritual maturity. That is the work of the moment."

--- Amy Carmichael

#Feels #Steps #Despondent

32 "Denial" Quotes