Matthew Henry Quotes

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

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

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

There's none so blind as those who will not listen.

None so blind as those who will not see.

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

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

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

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

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

He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles.

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.

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

Sometimes loving eyes don't see what they don't want to see.

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.

To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.

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

People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time.

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

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

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

America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.

Between knowing and not knowing is not wanting to know.