Jared Diamond Quote

We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.

When I find that stubbornness continually overrides common sense regardless of the logic of my argument, it seems that the only effective solution is to tell them to go ahead and stick their finger in...

Transparency is critical in public health and epidemics laypeople become either effective force-multipliers or stubborn walls.

There is a fine line between stubbornness and stupidity as well as intensity and insanity.

The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke

There's none so blind as those who will not listen.

I've never been good with asking for help; it seems risky, but at some point when things are really dicey, your stubbornness gives way to a certain form of humility that, after you get over yourself,...

I'm unpredictable, I never know where I'm going until I get there, I'm so random, I'm always growing, learning, changing, I'm never the same person twice. But one thing you can be sure of about me; is...

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

There is this common notion that young conservatives are the few, that most people had liberal worldviews when they were young. If this is true, then it is with great irony that a number of old libera...