Quotes about Inflexibility
But they would not listen, and they persisted in their former customs.
- 2 Kings 17:40
For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.
- Isaiah 48:4
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
- Henry David Thoreau
Mr Squeers himself acquired greater sternness and inflexibility from certain warm potations in which he was wont to indulge after his early dinner.
- Charles Dickens
When men have hearts of stone and foreheads of brass—it is a sign that the devil has taken full possession of them.
- Thomas Watson
It's hard to change adults. They are going to do what they are going to do.
- Henry Rollins
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
- Henry Ward Beecher
When people get their mind made up about something, then it's: 'Don't bother me with facts.' They've got their minds made up and dismiss you out of hand. Some people don't even give you a fair hearing.
- Frank Peretti
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure; it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.
- Ellen Glasgow
So the advocacy of "ethnicity," means racism plus tradition i.e., racism plus conformity i.e., racism plus staleness.
- Ayn Rand
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
- William Osler