Avoiding the Truth Quotes

People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.

People hide the truth because they're afraid.

The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.

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

In the long run, it is far more dangerous to adhere to illusion than to face what the actual fact is.

And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.

We all talk about how much we hate lies. Yet we prefer, so often, to be lied to....because it allows us to dodge all those painful truths we'd rather not hear.

Stop talking about the murders, and we won't know they're happening. And then we can all just live in a bubble that isn't reality.

Liars hate silence, so they often try to fill it up by talking more than they need to. They provide far more information than was needed or asked for.

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

Sometimes, though, you make a pact with yourself. I'll pretend there's nothing wrong if you pretend there's nothing wrong. It's called denial, and it's one of the strongest pacts in the world. Just ask all those people who were still drinking champagne while the Titanic went down.