Quotes About Rigidity

I have two rules:First, I'm never wrong.Second, if I'm wrong...back to the first rule."L Lawliet

Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.

Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.

Dogmatists have one advantage: they are poor listeners.

Some people have a mandate that you can't change.

turquoise-and-green cloth that cloaked her body did not soften the rigidity of her frame. Her bright copper hair had been arranged into an elaborate confection of twists, curls and coils. Her face, as intricately lined as a map, was powdered white and finished with bold scarlet lipstick. In her lap, her hands were a cluster of rubies, emeralds and white, bony knuckles; only her nails, unvarnished, cut short and square like my own, struck an incongruous note.

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

Man is at his most stubborn when his religious, socioeconomic, or political beliefs need change.

These are some of the most common symptoms of chronic stress in a man. Quite often they unfold in the following order over time, unless he is unable to find a way to return to his masculine side. 1.?Low motivation 2.?Apathy 3.?Rigidity or stubbornness 4.?Grumpiness 5.?Anger and irritability 6.?Resistance to change

What would bring the Confederacy to an inglorious end was the same thing that had so foolishly created it a rigidity of thought, a clinging to old ways, a refusal to adapt and change.

When people are least sure they are often most dogmatic. We

if it believes that it knows the truth and that it need not question its beliefs, then that society is more likely to enforce rigid decrees, and less likely to change. If it leaves room for doubt about the truth, it is more likely to be free and open. In

the prevailing paradigm tends to freeze progress

I really dread serious people. Especially serious, dogmatic people. I regard them as sort of what Reich called the emotional plague. I regard them as very dangerous.

The more you plan and the more rigid you are, it takes away from your experience

The lesson taught us by these kindly commentators on my present experience is that dogmatic faith compels the best minds and hearts to narrowness and insolence.

Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

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

The tradition that refuses to entertain doubt, or remains impervious to new thoughts and ideas, becomes a prison rather than a sustaining life force.

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

I believe that the characteristic or moral elements of Gothic are the following, placed in the order of their importance: 1. Savageness; 2. Changefulness; 3. Naturalism; 4. Grotesqueness; 5. Rigidity; 6. Redundance.

hate suits him better than forgiveness. Immersed in hate, he doesn't have to do anything; he can be paralyzed, and the rigidty of hatred makes a kind of shelter for him.

Having suffered under their parents' rigid marriages and formalized evasions, they sought to substitute an essential fidelity set in a matrix of easy and open companionship among couples. For the forms of the country club they substituted informal membership in a circle of friends and participation in a cycle of parties and games.

Si mucho te contentas con el orden, se dice, te vas convirtiendo en piedra.