Quotation Explorer - 'Denies'

An audience that is unwilling to suspend its own presuppositions and biases while considering an opposed (or even unopposed) viewpoint not only frustrates the function of extended argument but effectively denies its own beliefs a rational basis. - Vincent E. Barry
Every person who denies the truth is a coward who doesn't want to admit the truth - Pelle Vecordis
POSITIVISM, n. A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill and its thickest Spencer. - Ambrose Bierce
Anyone who denies the law of non-contradiction should be beaten and burned until he admits that to be beaten is not the same as not to be beaten, and to be burned is not the same as not to be burned. - ابن سينا - Ibn Sina
HOURI, n. A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a noble discontent with his earthly spouse, whom he denies a soul. By that good lady the Houris are said to be held in deficient esteem. - Ambrose Bierce
Marrying the wrong person only denies you both a chance at your soul mate. - Alessandra Torre
If God has really done something in Christ on which the salvation of the world depends, and if He has made it known, then it is a Christian duty to be intolerant of everything which ignores, denies, or explains it away. - James Denney
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. - Alice Walker
I resent being lied to because a lie doesn't only undermine the value of the truth, but it further denies the liar a fair chance for honesty. - Gugu Mona
UNITARIAN, n. One who denies the divinity of a Trinitarian. - Ambrose Bierce
The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted. - Immanuel Kant
He who denies the existence of a truth because it sounds negative creates a vacuum that draws the darkness unto him.
The denial of truth does not harm the Truth; it only harms that which denies the Truth. - Criss Jami
A Poet never denies creativity entrance. - Micheline Jean Louis
Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their trauma and relinquishing the chance to escape beyond the pain. - T.D. Jakes
A country that denies it, citizens, the opportunity to "civil liberties", better health care, schools, roads, electricity and water. Is a country on a brink of no return. - Henry Johnson Jr
The man who pursues moral ends with unmoral means is involved in acontradiction of motives, and nullifies the object at which he aims,since he denies it by his actions. - Fredrich Von Bernhardi
NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi. - Ambrose Bierce
The mind knows the truth when your heart denies what it feels. When you don't feel safe to let people in it is because you're not ready to deal with the pain of honesty. - Shannon L. Alder
Wind and breeze are separated todayCrimson twilight denies to fade away Grass blades turn brown to match the soilWe pretend to smile at every turmoil - Munia Khan
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