We are all of us more or less slaves of opinion.
—William Hazlitt
Showing posts with label stubborness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stubborness. Show all posts
Sunday, June 30, 2024
Thursday, May 30, 2019
Friday, February 08, 2019
Friday, July 07, 2017
Post #2375
Men who want to do everything their own way must make a world to suit them, for it can not be done in this.
Friday, March 27, 2015
Thursday, December 05, 2013
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Post #1322
It is a difficult thing to change the disposition, and if there is anything deeply engrained in our nature to suddenly pluck it out.
—Cicero
—Cicero
Friday, May 24, 2013
Post #1261
When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun with nettles.
—Horace Walpole
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Post #1040
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Saturday, June 05, 2010
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Post #193
"My idea of an agreeable person" said Hugo Bohun "is a person who agrees with me".
—From Lothair by Benjamin Disraeli
—From Lothair by Benjamin Disraeli
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Post #167
It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Sunday, December 13, 2009
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
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