William Kent Krueger Quotes

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

He occasionally stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.

Between knowing and not knowing is not wanting to know.

Men often stumble onto the truth but then quickly dust themselves off and hurry away.

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.

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.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

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

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves

Society is much like the ostrich with its head in the sand. It will not look at facts and face the responsibility of its own stupidity.

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!

America is in a state of somnolence. It's an avoidance of paranoia through ignoring reality.

If you consider yourself a friend, dont tell me." Because if i know the rumors, i'll feel like i have to confront the. and right this second i want to live in ignorant bliss.

Why ask for truth," Ser Barristan said softly, "if you close your ears to it?

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.

I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away. They spare themselves the confrontation, but end up boiling in resentment anyway.

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

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.

You know, as I've grown older, my ideas about sin have changed. I used to believe that sins were things you did, but I don't think that now. I think sins are what you ignore.

But avoidance allows you to believe that you're making all kinds of strides when you're not.

Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.

I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.

I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.