Celia Green Quotes

Given a choice between their worldview and the facts, it's always interesting how many people toss the facts.

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

People don't want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy.

We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.

In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'

We have a never sated appetite for self deception.

The greater your powers of self-delusion, the greater will be the apparent efficacy of this untruth.

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

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.

You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.

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.

We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.

To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not.

There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.

You know the problem, we don't want to believe what we know.

Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren't happening.

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.

Ignoring facts does not make them go away.

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

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

Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.

Politicians: Some are ignorant; some are not ignorant, but those who are ignorant don't want to know. The psychologists call it denial.

People deny things that are true all the time.