A Quote by William Cobbett

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

William Cobbett

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William Cobbett
English - Politician
March 9, 1763 - June 18, 1835

There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.

Francis Bacon

The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects, in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate.

Francis Bacon

Washington once advised his adopted grandson that where there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent. For there is nothing more certain than that it is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.

Ron Chernow

I still would say generally that more people have access [to] and take advantage of more diversity of opinion than was once .

William Kristol

Once you believe in yourself, you can pretty much do whatever you want in my opinion, so that is the main thing.

Lonzo Ball

The real advantage which truth has, consists in this, that when an opinion is true, it may be extinguished once, twice, or many times, but in the course of ages there will generally be found persons to rediscover it

John Stuart Mill

in my opinion, the Divine is revealed to all men once at least in their lives.

Marie Corelli

There are so many times there could have been a left turn instead of a right turn in all people's lives. I think mine are pretty crystal clear, because of being adopted, being born in Ethiopia, being adopted to Sweden.

Marcus Samuelsson

Generally speaking, you only put someone on paid leave if you're pretty certain that they might be terminated from the company once you do your investigation.

Kris Dunn

You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you.

Martial

Lawsuits generally originate with the obstinate and the ignorant, but they do not end with them; and that lawyer was right who left all his money to the support of an asylum for fools and lunatics, saying that from such he got it, and to such he would bequeath it.

Jeremy Bentham

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

Agatha Christie

Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God, part of that glory into which man is not to press too boldly.

Francis Bacon

When all the scaffolding is removed it is our integrity that both defines us and identifies us. Men of integrity are like the Rock of Gibraltar - steadfast and immovable; men without it are like the shifting sands on the Sahara Desert - tossed to and fro by every variant wind of life.