Denying

Famous quotes containing the word denying:

“The cynic, a parasite of civilisation, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.”
—José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)

“This great purple butterfly,
In the prison of my hands,
Has a learning in his eye
Not a poor fool understands.
Once he lived a schoolmaster
With a stark, denying look....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. Some minds are incapable of skepticism.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)