Ken Kesey Quotes

I hear nothing, I see nothing, I know nothing!

Who is so deafe, as he that will not hear?

He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.

While it is always possible to wake a person who's sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

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

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.

And to stick our head in the sand and pretend that we are somehow safer if we do not know or to pretend we are somehow safer if we limit our options seems to me not only foolish but actually dangerous.

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

Another way to lose control is to ignore something when you should address it.

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

Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.

You may choose to look the other way but you can never again say you did not know.

America is in a state of somnolence. It's an avoidance of paranoia through ignoring reality.

I know there are people who say 'just coach'... I don't hear them.

The real danger is a politics that buries its head in the sand.

Morning," I say. "Shh," she says. "If you don't acknowledge it, maybe it will go away.

Sometimes you don't want the truth. Sometimes you're like, "Oh just tell me the good answer. I don't want the truth."

One eare it heard, at the other out it went.

Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.

None so blind, so deaf, as those that will not hear, that will not see.

It's less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can't stop from happening.

The human race's favorite method for being in control of facts is to ignore them.

Behold the power of the truth. When people see its shadow on the wall, they don't want to take the time to look away.

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.

Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies.