Robin McKinley Quotes

I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy.

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

Between knowing and not knowing is not wanting to know.

Denial is a powerful force.

When you can't change what's bothering you, one typical response is to convince yourself that it doesn't actually bother you.

I don’t want to know anything, and I want to know it all

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

What state do you live in? Denial.

... all that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.

What you don't know will hurt you.

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

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

I cannot disobey something which I do not know and the reality of which I have the right to deny.

They only are wise who know that they know nothing.

Even when you don't know, you're supposed to know.

Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss.

We suffer only until we realize that we can't know anything.

I did no know everything there was to know about myself, and knew that I did not know it.

The only the way that you can live and function without seeing the facts in front of you is to put yourself in a constant state of denial.

The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know.

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

And any man who knows a thing, knows he knows not a damn, damn thing at all.

I know all one can know when one knows nothing.

How little do the wisest among us know of that which is so important to us all.