A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?
To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.
The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail.
He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.
Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
There's a marvelous and unique man named Frank Gilroy. He's the only writer I know who absolutely, pointedly refuses to do any changes that he doesn't feel are absolutely essential and totally in keeping with his own view and perspective. But not too many writers are that independent and that strong-willed.
She gives him what he can only call a sweet smile. 'So you are determined to go on being bad. Mad, bad, and dangerous to know. I promise, no one will ask you to change.
You turn if you want to. The Lady's not for turning.
Some people don't want to be helped, they want to do what they're doing, it's all they know.
There are far too many politicians out there who take the wrong position and stick with it and never admit that they should do something different.
I won 21 titles in seven years: three titles per year playing in this way. I'm sorry, guys. I'm not going to change.
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
You can have me the way i am — bad behavior included — or not at all.
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.
Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
Seems like everything people oughta know they just don't want to hear. I guess that's the big trouble with the world.
History repeats itself because no one listens the first time.
You’re presumptuous and arrogant and a whole lot of other things if you think I’ve changed my mind.” “You see, that’s just it.” There he was again, moving into my space. “I think you like the ‘other things.
