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  1. A quotation from Bill Watterson

    CALVIN: I don’t care about issues! I’ve got better things to do than argue with every wrong-headed crackpot with an ignorant opinion! I’m a busy man! I say, either agree with me or take a hike! I’m right, period! End of discussion!

    Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
    Calvin and Hobbes (1993-11-16)

    More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/83998…

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  2. A quotation from Bill Watterson

    CALVIN: I don’t care about issues! I’ve got better things to do than argue with every wrong-headed crackpot with an ignorant opinion! I’m a busy man! I say, either agree with me or take a hike! I’m right, period! End of discussion!

    Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
    Calvin and Hobbes (1993-11-16)

    More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/83998…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #agreement #argument #debate #demands #differenceofopinion #ignorance #inflexibility #issues #opinion #opinionofothers #selfrighteousness #stubbornness

  3. A quotation from Bill Watterson

    CALVIN: I don’t care about issues! I’ve got better things to do than argue with every wrong-headed crackpot with an ignorant opinion! I’m a busy man! I say, either agree with me or take a hike! I’m right, period! End of discussion!

    Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
    Calvin and Hobbes (1993-11-16)

    More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/83998…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #agreement #argument #debate #demands #differenceofopinion #ignorance #inflexibility #issues #opinion #opinionofothers #selfrighteousness #stubbornness

  4. A quotation from Bill Watterson

    CALVIN: I don’t care about issues! I’ve got better things to do than argue with every wrong-headed crackpot with an ignorant opinion! I’m a busy man! I say, either agree with me or take a hike! I’m right, period! End of discussion!

    Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
    Calvin and Hobbes (1993-11-16)

    More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/83998…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #agreement #argument #debate #demands #differenceofopinion #ignorance #inflexibility #issues #opinion #opinionofothers #selfrighteousness #stubbornness

  5. A quotation from Bill Watterson

    CALVIN: I don’t care about issues! I’ve got better things to do than argue with every wrong-headed crackpot with an ignorant opinion! I’m a busy man! I say, either agree with me or take a hike! I’m right, period! End of discussion!

    Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
    Calvin and Hobbes (1993-11-16)

    More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/83998…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #agreement #argument #debate #demands #differenceofopinion #ignorance #inflexibility #issues #opinion #opinionofothers #selfrighteousness #stubbornness

  6. A quotation from Henry Steele Commager

    What threatens our security is not change but the inability to change; what threatens progress is not revolution but stagnation; what threatens our survival is not novel or dangerous ideas but the absence of ideas.

    Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
    Speech (1971-04-10), “The University and the Community of Learning,” Kent State University, Ohio

    More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #change #conservatism #progress #stagnation #statusquo #survival #inflexibility #ideas #security

  7. A quotation from Cicero

    All men make mistakes; but it is fools who persist in them.
     
    [Cuiusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare.]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
    Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 12, ch. 2 / sec. 5 (12.2/12.5) (43-03 BC) [tr. @sentantiq (2012)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #meme #changeofmind #correction #error #foolishness #folly #inflexibility #mistake #revision #selfcorrection #stubbornness #stupidity

  8. A quotation from Cicero

    All men make mistakes; but it is fools who persist in them.
     
    [Cuiusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare.]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
    Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 12, ch. 2 / sec. 5 (12.2/12.5) (43-03 BC) [tr. @sentantiq (2012)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #meme #changeofmind #correction #error #foolishness #folly #inflexibility #mistake #revision #selfcorrection #stubbornness #stupidity

  9. A quotation from Cicero

    All men make mistakes; but it is fools who persist in them.
     
    [Cuiusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare.]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
    Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 12, ch. 2 / sec. 5 (12.2/12.5) (43-03 BC) [tr. @sentantiq (2012)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #meme #changeofmind #correction #error #foolishness #folly #inflexibility #mistake #revision #selfcorrection #stubbornness #stupidity

  10. A quotation from Cicero

    All men make mistakes; but it is fools who persist in them.
     
    [Cuiusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare.]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
    Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 12, ch. 2 / sec. 5 (12.2/12.5) (43-03 BC) [tr. @sentantiq (2012)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #meme #changeofmind #correction #error #foolishness #folly #inflexibility #mistake #revision #selfcorrection #stubbornness #stupidity

  11. A quotation from Abe Lincoln

    Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

    Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
    Speech (1865-04-11), Washington, D.C.

    More info about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/1817…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #abelincoln #abrahamlincoln #determination #fundamentals #inflexibility #principle #uncompromising

  12. A quotation from Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories.

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb (b. 1960) Lebanese-American essayist, statistician, risk analyst, aphorist
    The Black Swan, Part 1, ch. 1 “The Apprenticeship of an Empirical Skeptic” (2007)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/taleb-nassim-nichola…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #reality #truth #boundaries #brightline #categorization #category #classification #complexity #comprehension #inflexibility

  13. A quotation from Mencken, H. L.:

    «
    Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/mencken-hl/68140/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #decision #decisionmaking #firmness #inflexibility #reasoning #reconsideration #resolution #stubbornness #stupidity

  14. A quotation from Maugham, W. Somerset:

    «««««
    The Vicar of Blackstable would have nothing to do with the scheme which Philip laid before him. He had a great idea that one should stick to whatever one had begun. Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one’s mind.
    »»»»»

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/maugham-william-some

    #quote #quotes #quotation #changeofmind #consistency #determination #inflexibility #sticktoit #stubbornness #weakness