"When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he……" — Thucydides
"When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason."
More Accepting Quotes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines… — Karen Armstrong
- Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other… — Saint Augustine
- Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do… — Marcus Aurelius
- If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets,… — Teresa of Avila
- I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more… — Amy Adams
- The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. — James A. Baldwin
- Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself… — Antonio Banderas
- Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself. — Tyra Banks
- If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained… — William Barclay
- I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a… — Henry Adams