Joe Meno Quotes

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

We have believing in this innocent feeling of nothing will ever happen to us, because all catastrophes always broad and happening to anyone else.

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.

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

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.

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

Between knowing and not knowing is not wanting to know.

I like to live in a world of unicorns and rainbows where I don't pay attention to anything unless it's positive.

Sometimes it is better not to know. Sometimes when you do know you just fold up.

Sometimes a happy delusion is better than grim reality.

I couldn't fault her for believing, because I had to imagine i was nice to have that illusion still intact.

Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.

I think there is one smashing rule: never face the facts.

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

But avoidance allows you to believe that you're making all kinds of strides when you're not.

Perseus wore a magic cap that the monsters he hunted down might not see him. We draw the magic cap down over eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.

Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.

If I can avoid the mirror when I brush my teeth in the morning, I will. I find security and safety in the most profound degree of ignorance. If you can just stay ignorant of almost everything you'll be OK. It's fine to stay informed and look at things, but to judge things will bog you down.

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.

I forget about the diseases that I have. I don't want to know.

Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest.

People will believe anything if it means they can go on with their lives and not have to think too hard about it.

I don't want to live in a world where I just kind of play on my naïveté - well if I don't know it, then it doesn't exist.

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.

It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.