Persists Quotes

97 quotes by 87 authors

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise. — William Blake
If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives? — Taylor Caldwell
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts… — Albert Camus
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on going - is… — Robert Collier
Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of law is absent. In such… — Colin Powell
Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined… — Orison Swett Marden
Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the stars to a… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate -healthy virile hate- for what the German personifies and for what persists… — Elie Wiesel
The sciences have sworn among themselves an inviolable partnership; it is almost impossible to separate them, for they would rather suffer than be torn apart;… — Marin Mersenne
What we resist persists. — Sonia Johnson
The taking of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict on another, even when backed by legal process... Where the… — Ban Ki-moon
The idea that each individual has intrinsic, God-given value and is of infinite worth quite apart from any social contribution - an idea most pagans… — Elaine Pagels
World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare and spending for… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Scientific greatness is less a matter of intelligence than character; if the scientist refuses to compromise or accept incomplete answers and persists in grappling the… — Albert Einstein
No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape… — Sigmund Freud
Remember one very fundamental thing about life: Any experience that has not been lived will hang around you, will persist: "Finish me! Live me! Complete… — Rajneesh
While poverty persists, there is no true freedom. — Nelson Mandela

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