The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.
Where anti-Semitism persists, the well being of all our people is at risk.
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
What we resist persists.
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?
... There can be no doubt about faith and not reason being the ultima ratio. Even Euclid, who has laid himself as little open to the charge of credulity as any writer who ever lived, cannot get beyond this. He has no demonstrable first premise. He requires postulates and axioms which transcend demonstration, and without which he can do nothing. His superstructure indeed is demonstration, but his ground his faith. Nor again can he get further than telling a man he is a fool if he persists in differing from him. He says 'which is absurd,' and declines to discuss the matter further. Faith and authority, therefore, prove to be as necessary for him as for anyone else.
Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
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 that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
He joins me in my Ramble --
Divides abode with me --
No Friend have I that so persists
As this Eternity.
In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.
If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?
All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.
A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.
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