Quotes About Inflexibility

Dogmatism makes for scientific anemia.

I'm deeply impatient. If I can't park directly in front of somewhere, I go home.

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Newton's First was a real bitch, not open to negotiation.

No arguments you may use, no facts you may present, no logic you may array will in the slightest affect these people," the Kansas editor William Allen White, who opposed the Klan in an unsuccessful race for governor, wrote. "They have no capacity for receiving arguments, no minds for retaining or sifting facts and no mental processes that will hold logic. If they had any of these they would not be Kluxers.

You people sit in your yamen [headquarters], and your horizon is your window sill,' he went on. `You are ignorant because no one dares to correct you. You might lose face and, what's more, some one might lose his head. You've retreated into your intellectual rat holes, having exposed only a posterior of vanity. Goddamn it, sir, you've all become insufferably stupid!

If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.

But I say with sorrow that I fear these wooden people, whose view of the world is rigid and unchangeable, who are stupidly self-confident, and have no hesitations, worse than death.

These people's souls are dead: their thoughts are fixed in straight inflexible lines; and they are merciless as only a convinced and stupid man can be.

Fundamentalists don't know how to make exceptions.

Dogmatisms have power.

Many asses have only two legs.

I'm waiting for the candidate who says, 'I'm keeping things exactly the way they are. I like it this way.'

One of the greatest struggles of bureaucracies is they get built and created, but they design themselves in such a way that they can never be at fault. They can never be wrong, they can never have made a mistake and they never want to relent.

If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.

They put me in a whole body suit, from my neck to my ankles. It was so bad, I couldn't straighten my legs.

Quién no ha tenido que aguantarse alguna vez a un "experto" que se toma muy en serio a sí mismo y piensa que sus conocimientos son la sapiencia encarnada? Una de las características de la inflexibilidad mental es la solemnidad, que se manifiesta, abierta o soterradamente, como una fobia a la alegría.

Para la gente inflexible es muy difícil alcanzar un estado de paz interior. Más aún, es prácticamente imposible estar cerca de una persona rígida, llámese pareja, compañera o compañero de trabajo o de universidad, y no verse afectado negativamente por ella o él.

La mente de piedra no se permite dudar y aborrece la autocrítica. Sus fundamentos son inmodificables e indiscutibles.

The most dangerous people were those who knew they were always right.

I have a massive phobia for schedules and calendars. I need people to tell me where I need to be. I can't bear to see it in black and white. I think it's a fear of being pinned down.

When power is exercised exclusively at the centre, the result is rigidity of rules and alienation of the people subject to those rules.

Fundamentalists know what they believe and they know that nothing will change their minds.

My brain won't stretch to this right now. It doesn't fit!