Some people simply bury their heads in the sand and refuse to think about the sorrow of the world, but this is an unwise course, because, if we are entirely unprepared, the tragedy of life can be devastating.
I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.
Many people find bald, unvarnished truths so disturbing, they prefer to ram their heads in the sand and start dreaming at the first sign of scientific reality.
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.
The real danger is a politics that buries its head in the sand.
When the San Francisco Democrats treat foreign affairs as an afterthought, as they did, they behaved less like a dove or a hawk than like an ostrich - convinced it could shut out the world by hiding its head in the sand.
The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth.
If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.
