Quotes About Inflexibility

Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart.

An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.

I encounter really tough men and women who are just so harsh, you can't bend them. You do come across these kinds of people in every profession-just unyielding.

The man who will neither play nor do business unless everything is just to his liking and notions, retards rather than contributes to progress.

Stupidity is nature's favorite resource for preserving consistency of opinion.

Mountains and rivers are easy to move, but it's impossible to change a man's nature.

It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.

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

A stiff attitude is one of the phenomena of rigor mortis.

Neither had any interest in compromise or conciliation.

Consistency is the defense of a small mind

As Max Weber long ago pointed out, once one sets up a genuinely effective bureaucracy, it's almost impossible to get rid of it.

If one is inflexible and devoted to an illusion of normalcy - stability, permanence, reality - then the break is always harsher. The more rules there are to violate, the more violations there will be, because what we call reality is an interpretative construct of the human mind; a reality we re-make every day to deny the howling nothingness of existence and the meaningless tragedy of life.

Las organizaciones demasiado homogéneas y dogmáticas no consiguen nada.

I knew there was no point in debating a man such as this. The world bent and contorted itself to fit his understanding, not the other way around. I could not make him see reason, could not make him regret his actions. It would be a mistake to try.

She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.

It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.

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

Stubbornness is the bearer of disaster…"

How many crimes are committed simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

And so no force however great can stretch a cord however fine into a horizontal line that shall be absolutely straight.

Fanatic. One who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

One does not impose conditions on de Gaulle!