Top 1200 Denial Of Reality Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land.

"True science has no belief," says Dr. Fenwick, in Bulwer-Lytton's 'Strange Story;' "true science knows but three states of mind: denial, conviction, and the vast interval between the two, which is not belief, but the suspension of judgment." Such, perhaps, was true science in Dr. Fenwick's days. But the true science of our modern times proceeds otherwise; it either denies point-blank, without any preliminary investigation, or sits in the interim, between denial and conviction, and, dictionary in hand, invents new Graeco-Latin appellations for non-existing kinds of hysteria!

The loss of magic is the denial of unlimited possibility.

Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.

American society has gone completely into denial.

Grief is accepting the reality of what is. That is grief's job and purpose-to allow us to come to terms with the way things really are, so that we can move on. Grief is a gift of God. Without it, we would all be condemned to a life of continually denying reality, arguing or protesting against reality, and never growing from the realities we experience.

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

The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction

I think that nudity is beautiful. Sometimes it can be awful, but when it's beautiful? Cinema is the art about reality; it's art from reality. In French we say l'art de la realite. You show reality, so you have to show bodies.

For all reality TV, and all the viewers of reality TV, just be entertained. Don't invest your feelings, your heart, your soul into reality TV. It is entertainment. And that's all that it should be.

Denial is a save now, pay later scheme.

After denial comes anger and finally, acceptance.

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

My personal feeling is that human beings have this incredible capacity for denial.

Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality always creeps in--the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.

Debate is so much better than denial.

I love carbs, but denial is good training for the mind.

Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.

Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.

Delusion and denial does not equal an apology.

Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.

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

I am not a person who believes in austerity or denial.

Today we cannot assume people, even all Christians, understand the Bible's implicit, underlying view of reality. We have to dig it out and show it to people, including Christians, and ask them to "see reality as this" rather than "as that" - where "that" refers to any number of unbiblical ideas about reality.

I have a very highly developed sense of denial.

Few things are more important at this time in history than for religious people to listen to the New Atheists as if these unbelievers were speaking with God's voice, because they are! The word "God" used to be identified with reality - indeed, ultimate reality. In all cultures and at all times, the divine was no mere person, but was a personification of reality.

The weather today is an increasing trend towards denial.

Don't censor incoming data through denial.

Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.

Conversion without a clean heart is a denial of God and religion.

I believe we're all in denial about the people we love.

I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality. We can know that reality is good just as it is, because when we argue with it, we experience tension and frustration. We don't feel natural or balanced. When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.

The military is a path of the unknown. I wasn't in denial about the risk.

Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.

Until now, physical theories have been regarded as merely models with approximately describe the reality of nature. As the models improve, so the fit between theory and reality gets closer. Some physicists are now claiming that supergravity is the reality, that the model and the real world are in mathematically perfect accord.

There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.

Denial is much more then an Egyptian River.

No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.

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

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

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

[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.

Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes.

I believe in the invisible. I do not believe in the definitive reality of things around us. For me, reality is the intuition and the imagination and the quiet voice inside my head that says: isn't that extraordinary? The things in our lives are the shadows of reality, just as we ourselves are shadows.

Reality - the way that is, exactly as it is, in every moment - is always kind. It's our story about reality that blurs our vision, obscures what's true, and leads us to believe that there is injustice in the world. I sometimes say that you move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer.

Without arts programmes there's only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.

Denial can be a pathology or a survival mechanism - and sometimes it's both.

We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.

Healthy eating isn't supposed to be about self-denial; it's not a punishment.

Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on

The climate is changing, and anyone who disagrees is, in my view, still in denial.

There is no proof nor yet any denial. We were, we are, and we will be.

The greatest barrier to someone achieving their potential is their denial of it.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

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

In its most fundamental sense, execution is a systematic way of exposing reality and acting on it. Most companies don't face reality very well. ... Realism is the heart of execution, but many organizations are full of people who are trying to avoid or shade reality. Why? It makes life uncomfortable.

You can't be in the locker room reading 'League of Denial.'

Sanity can take one of only two forms: that of ignorance, or denial.

The principle of realism means denial of the ideal.

If what we regard as real depends on our theory, how can we make reality the basis of our philosophy? But we cannot distinguish what is real about the universe without a theory. It makes no sense to ask if it corresponds to reality, because we do not know what reality is independent of a theory.