Quotes About Rigidity

Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart.

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.

A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.

Only the clever men can be flexible; others are condemned to remain as rigid!

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.

... a result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs. The Nature of Mathematics

Continuing to believe the same thing, even in the face of new evidence to the contrary, is the definition of insanity - except in politics where it's called leadership.

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.

When people are least sure they are often most dogmatic.

The consistent thinker ... is either a walking mummy or else if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality a fanatical monomaniac.

From the petal's edge a line startsthat being of steelinfinitely fine, infinitelyrigid penetratesthe Milky Waywithout contact—

Neither had any interest in compromise or conciliation.

Consistency is the defense of a small mind

Las organizaciones demasiado homogéneas y dogmáticas no consiguen nada.

The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His.

You know flexibility is a good thing but it shouldn't - you shouldn't be flexible on core principles.

Absolutism is a guarantee of objectionable morals in the same way that absolutism in government is a guarantee of objectionable government.

Communism everywhere has paid the price of rigidity and dogmatism. Freedom has the strength of compassion and flexibility. It has, above all, the strength of intellectual honesty.

I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and wrong, and they lose sight of humanity. Being human has to come first before right or wrong.

Why! Why! Why is the middle-class so stodgy - so utterly without a sense of humor?

Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible.