“Advertising doesn't cause addictions. But it does create a climate of denial and it contributes mightily to a belief in the quick fix, instant gratification, the dreamworld, and escape from all pain and boredom. All of this is part of what addicts believe and what we hope for when we reach for our particular substance.... Addiction begins with the hope that something "out there" can instantly fill up the emptiness inside. Advertising is all about this false hope.” BelieveDoePainBeliefCausesParticularClimateAddictionAdvertisingDenialSubstanceInstantBoredomEmptinessAddictGratificationInstant GratificationFalse HopeQuick FixesEmptiness Inside Author:Jean Kilbourne
“Positive secularism is not tolerance of all religions, but it is the total denial of religious beliefs: it is the emergence of homogeneous human outlook which is based upon verifiable facts of life.” HumansFactsBeliefReligiousToleranceDenialOutlookSecularismFacts Of LifeReligious BeliefEmergenceHomogeneous Author:Goparaju Ramachandra Rao
“It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself.” ChildrenShowsFatherBeliefParentPleasureGenerationsSonTasteTendenciesDenialDeniedAbnormalClergymen Book:The Story of a Literary Career Source: The Story of a Literary Career
“There are, however, exceptions to this reliance on feelings as evidence of truth: if, for instance, your feelings lead to disbelief instead of belief, they're apt to be dismissed as some form of denial. This is not a common problem. Usually intellectualism, not feeling reality, is blamed for disbelief. But, some angel experts suggest, there may be emotional as well as intellectual barriers to belief: unwillingness to believe in angels can reflect low self-esteem.” IfsBelieveWellsMaySelfFeelingsProblemRealityFormBeliefCommonAtheismSelf EsteemEmotionalIntellectualLowsEvidenceAngelPositive AtheismEsteemInstanceDenialExpertsExceptionBarriersRelianceDisbeliefLow Self EsteemIntellectualism Author:Wendy Kaminer
“"True science has no belief," says Dr. Fenwick, in Bulwer-Lytton's 'Strange Story;' "true science knows but three states of mind: denial, conviction, and the vast interval between the two, which is not belief, but the suspension of judgment." Such, perhaps, was true science in Dr. Fenwick's days. But the true science of our modern times proceeds otherwise; it either denies point-blank, without any preliminary investigation, or sits in the interim, between denial and conviction, and, dictionary in hand, invents new Graeco-Latin appellations for non-existing kinds of hysteria!” KnowsMindKindTwoStatesStoriesHandsThreeBeliefModernStrangeJudgmentConvictionDenyDenialLatinState Of MindInvestigationBlankDrsDictionaryIntervalsHysteriaModern TimesSuspensionInterimStrange Stories Author:H. P. Blavatsky
“You can choose to live your lives as demonstrations of your highest and grandest beliefs, rather than as denials of them.” ChoicesBeliefHighestDenialLive Your LifeDemonstration Book:The New Revelations: A Conversation with God Source: The New Revelations: A Conversation with God