Incorrigible Quotes

• Me complace enormemente ver que se aclama calurosamente la obstinación de un incorregible inconformista.

  Albert Einstein

  Amor, Inspiración, Vida

  Albert Einstein (2010). "Ideas y opiniones", p.33, Broadway Books

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• Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

  John Updike

  Success, Writing, Decay

  John Updike's acceptance speech for Edward MacDowell Medal, as quoted in New York Times, August 26, 1981.

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• El idealista es incorregible: si le echan de su cielo, hace de su infierno un ideal.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heaven, Hell, Idealist

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• I pride myself on being incorrigible. I have a very hard time being told what to do.

  Joe Satriani

  Pride, Hard Times, Hard

  Guitar World, May 2000.

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• Puede haber algunos seres humanos incorregibles que no puedan ser cambiados excepto por la propia misericordia de Dios hacia esa persona.

  Warren E. Burger

  That One Person, May, Mercy

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• In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

  A. E. Housman

  Funny, Sarcastic, Air

  "Voices: A Memoir". Book by Frederic Prokosch, 1983.

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• Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.

  William Hazlitt

  Race, Idols, Evil

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.553

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• No seas inaccesible. Nadie es tan perfecto como para no necesitar a veces el consejo de los demás. Es un imbécil incorregible que nunca escuchará a nadie. Incluso el intelecto más sobresaliente debe encontrar un lugar para el consejo amistoso. La soberanía misma debe aprender a apoyarse. Hay algunos que son incorregibles simplemente porque son inaccesibles: Caen en la ruina porque nadie se atreve a sacarlos. El más alto debe tener la puerta abierta para la amistad; puede resultar la puerta de la ayuda. Un amigo debe ser libre de aconsejar, e incluso de reprender, sin sentirse avergonzado.

  Baltasar Gracián

  Fall, Should Have, Doors

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.59, Shambhala Publications

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• If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman… have faith. There is yet time.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Have Faith, Impossible, Ifs

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• If you have ever been called defiant, incorrigible, forward, cunning, insurgent, unruly, rebellious, you're on the right track.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Track, Rebellious, Unruly

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• La debilidad es el único defecto incorregible.

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  Weakness, Faults

  Francois duc de La-Rochefoucauld (1828). “Maximes Et Reflexions Morales Traduites en Grec Moderne Par Wladimir Brunet; Avec Une Traduction Anglaise en Regard”, p.73

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• Early in my school career, I turned out to be an incorrigible disciplinary problem. I could understand what the teacher was saying as fast as she could say it, I found time hanging heavy, so I would occasionally talk to my neighbor. That was my great crime, I talked in school.

  Isaac Asimov

  Teacher, School, Science

  Isaac Asimov (2002). “It's Been a Good Life”, Pyr Books

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• The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.

  William Ralph Inge

  Men, Progress, Obstacles

  William Ralph Inge (1920). "Outspoken Essays"

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• A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Knaves, Fool, Dangerous

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.188

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• I am not merely a habitual quoter but an incorrigible one. I am, I may as well face it, more quotatious than an old stock-market ticker-tape machine, except that you can't unplug me.

  Joseph Epstein

  Tape, Machines, May

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• El valor de un hombre debe verse en lo que da y no en lo que es capaz de recibir.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirador, Inspirador, Educativo

  Joseph Eger, Albert Einstein (2005). "El violín de Einstein: apuntes de un director de orquesta sobre música, física y cambio social", Tarcher

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• Los niños que han demostrado ser incorregibles a la edad de doce años deben ser rápida y silenciosamente decapitados, no sea que lleguen a la madurez, se casen y perpetúen la semejanza de su ser.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Children, Maturity, Age

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• Desde los primeros tiempos, [la iglesia] se ha lanzado violentamente contra todo esfuerzo por liberar el cuerpo y la mente del hombre. Ha sido, en todo tiempo y lugar, la habitual e incorregible defensora de malos gobiernos, malas leyes, malas teorías sociales, malas instituciones. Fue, durante siglos, apologista de la esclavitud, como lo fue del derecho divino de los reyes.

  H. L. Mencken

  Reyes, Hombres, Ley

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• Even the most incorrigible maverick has to be born somewhere. He may leave the group that produced him-he may be forced to-but nothing will efface his origins, the marks of which he carries with him everywhere. I think it is important to know this and even find it a matter for rejoicing, as the strongest people do, regardless of their station. On this acceptance, literally, the life of a writer depends.

  James A. Baldwin

  Acceptance, Thinking, Origin Of Life

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• As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To acknowledge the existence of the incorrigible.

  Susan Sontag

  Weakness, Different, Needs

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.98, Macmillan

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• Recuerde, Monsieur, que la caída de la mayoría de las Comunidades viene de la cobardía de los Superiores al no mantenerse firmes y al no purgarlas de los problemáticos e incorregibles.

  Vicente de Paúl

  Liderazgo, Comunidad, Recordar

  San Vicente de Paúl, Pierre Coste (1990). "Correspondencia, Conferencias, Documentos: Correspondencia; enero 1640-julio 1646)"

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• On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.

  Albert Camus

  Real, Ignorance, Men

  Albert Camus (1948). "La peste", Vintage

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• Ni una filosofía ilustrada, ni toda la sabiduría política de Roma, ni siquiera la fe y la virtud de los cristianos sirvieron contra la incorregible tradición de la antigüedad. Se necesitaba algo, más allá de todos los dones de la reflexión y la experiencia: una facultad de autogobierno y autocontrol, desarrollada como su lengua en la fibra de una nación, y que creciera con su crecimiento.

  Lord Acton

  Cristiano, Filosofía, Reflexión

  "La historia de la libertad en el cristianismo". Lord Acton Discurso pronunciado ante los miembros del Instituto Bridgnorth, acton.org. 28 de mayo de 1877.

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• I do indeed disbelieve that we or any other mortal men can attain on a given day to absolutely incorrigible and unimprovable truth about such matters of fact as those with which religions deal. But I reject this dogmatic ideal not out of a perverse delight in intellectual instability. I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.

  William James

  Men, Intellectual, Doubt

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.116, Xist Publishing

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• Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in the expectation that those who have had a virtuous moral upbringing will respond, yet he is bound to impose chastisement and penalties on the disobedient and ill-conditioned, and to banish the incorrigible out of the state altogether. For (they argue) although the virtuous man, who guides his life by moral ideals, will be obedient to reason, the base, whose desires are fixed on pleasure, must be chastised by pain, like a beast of burden.

  Aristotle

  Pain, Men, Law

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