8 Quotes Tagged: refusal

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"You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." (Elizabeth Bennett)

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

Karl Popper, Austrian-British philosopher of science and social and política e falsificationism and for criticism of Plato, Hegel and Marx as totalitarian opponents of open society (1902-1994)

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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

If you refuse to deal with time today, time will deal with you tomorrow.

Wahrscheinlich kann man vom Nichtwollen seelisch nicht leben; eine Sache nicht tun wollen, das ist auf Dauer kein Lebensinhalt.

And she refused to go to that miserable place he had dragged her to so many times, to hope for a thing that was unchangeable.

The only time no ever means no in the absence of violence is when it is uttered by one civilized person to another.

Jordan Peterson, Canadian clinical psychologist, author, and political commentator and manosphere activist

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