Jonathan Swift Quotes

None so blind as those who will not see.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Between knowing and not knowing is not wanting to know.

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

When your head is firmly in the sand, another part of your anatomy is fully exposed.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.

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.

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.