Margot Asquith Quotes

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

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

Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.

The phenomenon of creativity, we know, is closely related to the ability to yoke together separate, and even seemingly incompatible, matrices.

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.

His has a rigidity, an arrogance, and an obstinacy that will cause him to foment a thousand unfortunate incidents.

Obstinacy and heat of opinion are the surest proof of stupidity.

The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light there is shed upon them.

I can't solve a puzzle for the life of me - my brain doesn't work that way. But I can take a very simple idea and extrapolate from it and spend time with it and pull things out of it.

There's no point in arguing with me- in my mind, I'm always right.

Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe.

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

When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.

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

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

OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.

Some people are like that - closed - they can't learn from anyone. Us, for example, we can't learn anything, neither I from you nor you from me, nor from anyone, nor from anything, nor from what happens.

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

Once I make a decision, it's hard for me to listen to anybody else's opinion. I make a choice, and I'm like, 'This is it. I've thought long and hard about this, and this is exactly what needs to happen.'

My mind jumbles things, reassembles them, and plays with words without even being asked.

You can't teach an old hater new truths.

I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.

Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?

Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.