unyielding perspective Quotes

An ideologue - one who thinks ideologically - can't lose. He can't lose because his answer, his interpretation and his attitude have been determined in advance of the particular experience or observation. They are derived from the ideology, and not subject to the facts.

My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right.

I stare at her. I've always known that it's impossible to argue with Belinda, not because she's particularly good at it, but because she's so bad at it- that there is no common ground to work from. She simply sees the world she wants to see it and no amount of logic can change her mind.

My attitude is tattooed that means it's permanent

When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.

If you cannot be open-minded, then you do not possess your ideas, your ideas possess you.

I'm not a fan of facts. You see, the facts can change, but my opinion will never change, no matter what the facts are.

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview.

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

The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.

Nothing shakes my opinion of a book. Nothing -- nothing. Only perhaps if it's the book of a young person -- or of a friend -- no, even so, I think myself infallible.

It seems to me that a man who can think straight along for forty-seven years without changing a single idea ought to be kept in a cabinet as a curiosity.

Consider the case of a person who holds a view with probability 1. Then coherence says that it is no use having a debate with them because nothing will change their mind.