Mary Roberts Rinehart Quotes

Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, sometimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them.

There is no man so blind as one who has made up his mind.

I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.

He has a brilliant mind until he makes it up.

I think if someone is writing continuously for 10 years and has not changed their mind about something - there's something wrong with them. They're not really thinking.

We are natural mind changing entities until we are 10 or so. But as we get older...then it is very hard to change our minds

Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.

Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.

She live in a mindset that I could never move to

Stafford Cripps has a brilliant mind, until he makes it up.

A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.

As you get older, you get stuck in your ways; just as you become stiffer physically, you also become stiffer mentally and more narrow-minded unless you make a conscious effort to keep yourself flexible.

The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on, and the current will run with destructive fury when there are no barriers to break its force.

The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression.

I don't know very much but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it…My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.

A man will never change his mind if he have no mind to change.

Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we do not easily believe beyond what we see.

Smallness of mind is the cause of stubbornness, and we do not credit readily what is beyond our view.

A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.

Inconsistency is the bugbear of fools! I wouldn't give a damn for a fellow who couldn't change his mind with a change of conditions.

Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.

Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

Developing a compiler was a logical move; but in matters like this, you don't run against logic - you run against people who can't change their minds.

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

A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness