Charles Krauthammer Quotes

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.

He occasionally stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.

The only the way that you can live and function without seeing the facts in front of you is to put yourself in a constant state of denial.

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.

Some adults would rather pretend that bad things don't exist than to talk about them.

People don't want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy.

Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.

Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.

Honesty allows us to live with not knowing. We do not know the full story; we do not know where we are in the story. We do not know who, ultimately, is at fault or who will carry the blame in the end.

Because you can be lazy if you don't know the truth.

Society is much like the ostrich with its head in the sand. It will not look at facts and face the responsibility of its own stupidity.

I often wonder which is best, to be honest about what you know in this world, or to continue to deny you know it and thereby fool yourself into believing that it does not exist!

In boxing, they say it's the punch you don't see coming that knocks you out. In the wider world, the reality we ignore or deny is the one that weakens our most impassioned efforts toward improvement.

So, blind to Someone I must be.

It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which. The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face.

Let him be wise, or let me be blind; don't let me, she hoped concretely, don't let me know too surely what he thinks of me.

You stopped looking for the truth...I'd guess that's a sin we've all been guilty of.

"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.

There's none so blind as they that won't see.

There's nothing as safe as ignorance or as dangerous.

I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away. They spare themselves the confrontation, but end up boiling in resentment anyway.

She wouldn't say what we both knew. 'The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true: is that it? But you know it is true now. I can almost tell you the day when you knew it is true. Why won't you say it, even to yourself?' She will not say it.

To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.