Adherence Quote by John Locke Download Open image “Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.” — John Locke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adherence Firmness Mind Obstinacy Prejudice Psychology Stiffness Submission Truth
“But to minds strongly marked by the positive and negative qualities that create severity,— strength of will, conscious rectitude of purpose, narrowness of imagination… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Truth always carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation regardless of the centrality of… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Tis easiest dealing with the firmest mind-- More just when it resists, and, when it yields, more kind. — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A society committed to the search for truth must give protection to, and set a high value upon, the independent and original mind, however… — Caryl Parker Haskins Copy Share Image
Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“For a Truth to be a Truth it must be moving. In other words, our understanding of this ‘Truth’ expanding and widening with our… — Suzanne Donald Copy Share Image
The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
With considerable soul searching, that to the utmost of my ability, I have let truth be the prejudice. — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
One must be truthful and honest in his approach; a constant independent inquiry and not blindly following a certain blue print laid down by… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his… — John Locke Copy Share Image
If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“[M]an is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out… — John Locke Copy Share Image
When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success. — John Locke Copy Share Image
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Earthly minds, like mud-walls, resist the strongest batteries: And though perhaps sometimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“To avoid this state of war (wherein there is no appeal but to heaven, and wherein every the least difference is apt to end,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands. — John Locke Copy Share Image
“don’t let the things you don’t have prevent you from using the things you do have.” — John Locke Copy Share Image
No one is born with good character; it's not a hereditary trait. And it isn't determined by a single noble act. Character is established… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary. It alone… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“start with a baseline of how often a habit or practice atrophies or breaks down, and then you start stacking up advantages to increase… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
Having been brought up with a definition of faith as adherence to a set of beliefs, I have more and more begun to turn… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
Some communities will be abandoned, others will struggle along, others will split, others will flourish, gain members, and be duplicated elsewhere. Each community must… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Devotion to the facts will always give the pleasures of recognition; adherence to the rules of design, the pleasures of order and certainty. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
That the foundation of our national policy should be laid in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it is in… — James Madison Copy Share Image
What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of the… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
If the student truly absorbs the concept of free inquiry in the field of music, unimpeded by blind adherence to doctrine and tradition, he… — William Howard Schuman Copy Share Image