Denial Quotes

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

Ambrose Bierce

The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.

Keith Miller

The greatest barrier to someone achieving their potential is their denial of it.

Simon Travaglia

Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.

Edwin Louis Cole

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

Christopher Lasch

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.

William Graham Sumner

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

Theodore Parker

Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.

Isaiah Berlin

Self denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

Oscar Wilde

Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you.

Bill Hicks

Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.

Ambrose Bierce

Never underestimate the power of denial.

Wes Bently

Self denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

George Bernard Shaw

Self denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity

Oscar Wilde