Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

I don't like to be proved wrong.

I'm a stubborn guy that loses his temper, sometimes driving the station wagon in the wrong direction for hours and hours and never admitting that he's gone the wrong way.

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

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

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

The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.

Consistency frequently launches its devotees into obstinacy.

There is a troublesome humor some men have, that if they may not lead, they will not follow; but had rather a thing were never done, than not done their own way, tho' other ways very desirable.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

A lot of times people are too ego caught up where they made the decision and "We're going to stick with it" and then I had to suffer.

Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.

My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.

The proud will sooner lose than ask their way.

The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.

Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.

Idiots can be defeated but they never admit it.

Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart.

I'm as fixed in my opinion as the man who thought he was a hard-boiled egg.

It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in the good party and are reluctant to accept inferior ones.

Damned indecision and cursed pride.

There is something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Perhaps if the [the enemy] had brought a smaller army I might have had the sense to run. But he overdid it.

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.