Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

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

There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.

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.

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

People don't really want to know what happens. They ask you for just a second, but then they don't want to know.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it

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

If you never noticed, it never happened.

Why ask for truth," Ser Barristan said softly, "if you close your ears to it?

the problem with knowing is that it takes away the possibility of pretending!

If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

The best mind-altering drug is the truth.

You know the problem, we don't want to believe what we know.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

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

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?