Jim Butcher Quotes

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

We are willing to believe anything other than the truth.

Some people have a peculiar faculty for denying facts.

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

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

The human race's favorite method for being in control of facts is to ignore them.

That's fairly common. We don't believe anything we don't want to believe.

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

People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost.

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.

The definition of an asshole is someone who doesn't believe what he is seeing.

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

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.

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

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

Though I had an idea of what was going on - I purposely didn't see it.

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

People readily believe what they want to believe.

Sometimes you don't want the truth. Sometimes you're like, "Oh just tell me the good answer. I don't want the truth."

Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. One often obtains a clue to a person's nature by discovering the reasons for his or her imperviousness to certain impressions.

People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.

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.

It would be easier for the Devil to go to church and cross himself with holy water than for these people to comprehend the ideas which are accepted facts to us today.