Top Persist Quotes
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Carl Sagan
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
William Blake
So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.
Jonathan Kozol
The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.
Vannevar Bush
Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.
Isaiah Berlin
Andrew Cohen 
Estelle Morris 
Jonathan Kozol 
Donald Rumsfeld 
Mortimer Adler 
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Carl Sagan 
89% of people like this quote
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
William Blake
63% of people like this quote
So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.
Jonathan Kozol
59% of people like this quote
The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.
Vannevar Bush
59% of people like this quote
Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.
Isaiah Berlin
58% of people like this quote
It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable.
Andrew Cohen
55% of people like this quote
But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm.
Algernon H. Blackwood
55% of people like this quote
No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
Thomas Hobbes
55% of people like this quote
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
Henry Ward Beecher
54% of people like this quote
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
Lord Chesterfield
52% of people like this quote
Popular Persist Authors
OvidHenry Ward BeecherDwight D. EisenhowerWilliam BlakeLord ChesterfieldDonald RumsfeldArthur EricksonF. Scott FitzgeraldKevin KellyThomas HobbesMortimer AdlerMikhail BakuninDoc HastingsVinton CerfAdam Smith
E. O. WilsonChen Shui-bianEstelle MorrisAndrew CohenJonathan KozolCarl SaganRuss CarnahanFrank Moore ColbyIsaiah BerlinGeorge William RussellDavid TudorVannevar BushDave PelzerAlgernon H. BlackwoodLincoln Ellsworth
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