Mark Shields Quotes

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

It doesn't matter if the truth is right there out in front of your eyes. You will find a way, a mechanism, in order to keep your own system of denial. So as I always say it, denial is a river that runs in the - in Egypt. So we became very good in that.

None so blind as those who will not see.

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

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

Obviously, some people are thick, and they're not gonna see what they don't want to see.

Though I had an idea of what was going on - I purposely didn't see it.

Who is so deaf or so blind as is he that willfully will neither hear nor see?

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

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

I believed him. I was not stupid. I was his wife.

Some people have a peculiar faculty for denying facts.

A form of self-delusion.

Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.

People believed what they wanted to believe, no matter what was right in front of their eyes.

Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth.

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.

I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly obvious.

If your family - just because they're blood doesn't mean that they necessarily give you the best advice.

It’s all very well for such a person to whine and moan and criticize other family members, but they won’t let anyone else do it. That’s when you get your back up and show loyalty.

Don't you open your mouth about the best!

Never trust a journalist unless she's your mother.

If somebody said my wife's not beautiful, I'd go, she is. I wouldn't say, really? No, she is. I know she is. In my mind, you know.

But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.