(249 quotes found)
“Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd”
Annie Besant
“The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.”
Simon Wiesenthal
“One secret act of self-denial, one sacrifice of inclination to do is worth all of the good thought, warm feelings, and passionate prayers in which idle men indulge themselves.”
David McKay
“Wonder is not a Pollyanna stance, not a denial of reality; wonder is an acknowledgment of the power of the mind to transform.”
Christina Baldwin
“Self denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality”
George Bernard Shaw
“The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.”
Thornton T. Munger
“Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.”
Stephen Jay Gould
“Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego”
Ambrose Bierce
“If they can't swallow facts, let them eat fiction.”
Rain Bojangles
“A civil denial is better than a rude grant”
Thomas Fuller
