Quotes About Inflexibility

Your heart is always harder than a stone.

Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.

I'm stubborn, which is not necessarily admirable.

In my humble opinion, change is stupid.

Am I dealing with stubbornness, idiocy, or some combination of the two?" "-Cam Rohan

Being stubborn is the worst thing about me.

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

As they've always been. And they don't change just because you want them to.

He gave me the same shrug and I saw that his mind wasn't for the changing. People like Mulkern are used to creating the facts on their own, then letting the rest of us in.

They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions.

The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of changing their views to fit the facts, they try to change the facts to fit their views.

There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.

Knee Problems: Stubborn ego and pride. Inability to bend. Fear. Inflexibility. Won't give in. Forgiveness. Understanding. Compassion. I bend and flow with ease, and all is well.

The Blue Church does not allow dissent. Questions or curiosity about alternative viewpoints are met with humiliation and ejection.

A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways.

Of course, everyone is intolerant of something or someone.

Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.

Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

That is the way it is done, the way it has always been done. Frogs have every right to expect it will always be done that way.

One reason that Freud views creativity as a valuable antidote to symptoms—and let us recall that symptoms are, by definition, indicators of psychic inflexibility—is that he believes it to be an active means of mourning loss.

What we eventually run up against are the forces of humourlessness, and let me assure you that the humourless as a bunch don't just not know what's funny, they don't know what's serious. They have no common sense, either, and shouldn't be trusted with anything.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won't. —Howard Ward Beecher

Trump just did not, as Spicer later put it, give a fuck. You could tell him whatever you wanted, but he knew what he knew, and if what you said contradicted what he knew, he simply didn't believe you.