'Tis Self-Conceit, that makes Opinion obstinate.

 

'Tis Self-Conceit, that makes Opinion obstinate.

 

Thomas Fuller (writer)

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Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

 

William Cobbett

 

You will do me the justice to remember, that I have always strenuously supported the Right of every Man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.

 

Thomas Paine

 

If a man would pursue Philosophy, his first task is to throw away conceit. For it is impossible for a man to begin to learn what he has a conceit that he already knows. (72)

 

Epictetus

 

Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate a passion, and works its way through so many real dangers and difficulties, that it is not likely to be scared by an imaginary danger, which is so small, that it scarcely admits of calculation. Commerce, therefore, in my opinion, is apt to decay in absolute governments, not because it is there less secure, but because it is less honourable.

 

David Hume

 

If...it be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine own conceit and opinion concerning the thing: which thou mayest rid thyself of, when thou wilt.

 

Marcus Aurelius