Richard Whately Quotes

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

You are not going to change the minds of people who are looking for attention.

A man with a conviction is a hard man to change.

People are stubborn, and sometimes even if change is good, people will always oppose change.

I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.

You can change my mind, but you gotta work harder at it.

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

You cannot possibly persuade people that what they have firmly in mind is not so.

The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail.

I don't want to change. I haven't done it before, I won't do it now.

The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.

There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.

At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.

Reform has to be based on opening your mind and opening the mind does not come from decrees or laws. It comes from a whole set of circumstances, which if you do not have, anything you do will be not productive or will be counter-productive.

The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.

Rebuttals never alter desire.

Intolerance of your present creates your future.

Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.

People who talk incessantly about "change" are often dogmatically set in their ways. They want to change other people.

Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes - it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm.

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

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.

Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.