Unyielding Attitudes Quotes

Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.

Whatever I do, if people see me in a certain light, then they will always judge me in that light. Their impressions and perceptions will never change.

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.

Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.

Almost any theory, even those espoused by self-proclaimed conservatives, can be held in an absolutistic way such that it poses a threat to institutional and political stability.

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

We see that pedantry has never been held in such esteem for the government of the world as in our times, and it offers as many paths of the true intelligible species and objects of infallible and sole truth as there are individual pedants.

The problem is not that Christians are conservative or liberal, but that some are so confident that their position is God's position that they become dismissive and intolerant toward others and divisive forces in our national life.

Men's prejudices rest upon their character for the time being and cannot be overcome, as being part and parcel of themselves. Neither evidence nor common sense nor reason has the slightest influence upon them.

Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact.