Quotes About Inflexibility

Conservatism and passive acceptance... They can't think for themselves. Anything that's too complicated sends their heads reeling. Makes me want to puke.

Think about someone you know who is steeped in the fixed mindset. Think about how they're always trying to prove themselves and how they're supersensitive about being wrong or making mistakes. Did you ever wonder why they were this way? (Are you this way?) Now you can begin to understand why.

Laws should be made of iron, not pudding.

Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.

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

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

The guy took off, which meant short of braining him with the glass, there was no other way of expressing his I-am-an-island opinion. Although really, that would just be a waste of good booze--Qhuinn was so hardheaded, you could have hit his frontal lobe with a crowbar and made no impression on him whatsoever.

Donald Trump has proven to be the kind of person who you can't reason with and who you can't have a logical conversation with - and who I can't imagine having a heart-to-heart conversation thinking that I would change something specifically about this person.

Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.

There is no man more dangerous than one who does not doubt his own rightness.

That's what makes most places utterly impossible - the people. They're so completely hateful. They want everybody to conform to their beastly narrow little way of looking at things. And if one happens not to, one's treated as something unspeakable. And then there's nothing for it but to leave at once.

In small towns, the social dynamic was like concrete; it set early and hard.

There is nothing quite like the moral absolutism of the young." -Hodge

Consistency is the sign of a narrow mind.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

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.

A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country

He (John Major) has the mulishness of a weak man with stupidity.

For this is the tragedy of man circumstances change, but he does not.

There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.

Nature doesn't give a damn for convenience, and never has.

Mr Squeers himself acquired greater sternness and inflexibility from certain warm potations in which he was wont to indulge after his early dinner.

Either get out of bed or else take your clothes off, I'm not in the mood to compromise.

Unfortunately, we live in a country where different opinions are no longer acceptable. There's no point arguing with someone who thinks they are right without believing they could ever be wrong.