Kimberly Guilfoyle Quotes

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

Don't face the facts.

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

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.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

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

Some people choose not to believe the truth because it disagrees with what they fundamentally want.

I often wonder which is best, to be honest about what you know in this world, or to continue to deny you know it and thereby fool yourself into believing that it does not exist!

You may choose to look the other way but you can never again say you did not know.

The truth is not delicate and it does not suffer from denial—the truth only dies when true stories are untold.

There are lots of things we choose not to see. Doesn't mean they aren't there, even if we wish they weren't.

If you never noticed, it never happened.

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

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.

If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

Folks always seemed to think that as long as they didn't know about something bad, it wasn't happening, so whoever told them actually caused it to be true.

Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand still.

If you argue against reality you will suffer.

Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.

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.

Ignorance isn't bliss, but sometimes ignorance makes it possible for us to sleep at night.

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

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

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.

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore