Matthew Henry Quotes

Obviously, some people are thick, and they're not gonna see what they don't want to see.

Who is so deaf or so blind as is he that willfully will neither hear nor see?

None so blind as those who will not see.

There's none so blind as those who will not listen.

None so blind, so deaf, as those that will not hear, that will not see.

There's none so blind as they that won't see.

Who is so deafe, as he that will not hear?

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.

I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.

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

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

When people get their mind made up about something, then it's: 'Don't bother me with facts.' They've got their minds made up and dismiss you out of hand. Some people don't even give you a fair hearing.

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

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

If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues; but men are generally stubborn just in proportion as they are ignorant and wrong.

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.

He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

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

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.