Quotes on Incorrigible

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

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.

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

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

The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.

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.