You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. (Ayn Rand)

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. (Bertrand Russell)

We have art to save ourselves from the truth. (Friedrich Nietzsche)