Obstinacy Quotes
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Obstinacy Quotes & Sayings
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Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?
— Michel De Montaigne
I owe as much of my success to an uncompromising obstinacy as to any original ideas.
— Albert Einstein
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
— Henry Ward Beecher
It is a thing to be regretted (and prevented, if possible) that a whole nation should be ruined for the pride and obstinacy of its princes,
— Matthew Henry
The obstinacy on which power is based is never so fragile as in the moment of its triumph.
— Italo Calvino
Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.
— Aaron Swartz
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
— Robert Peel
I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism.
— Jeanne Moreau
The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.
— Henry Ward Beecher
'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one.
— Laurence Sterne
If you deal obstinacy with obstinacy in this world; resolution will not come. Simplicity against obstinacy will bring about resolution.
— Dada Bhagwan
Because - and don't let anybody tell you different - novel writing is mostly triage (this now, that later) and obstinacy.
— Richard Russo
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Revolutions arise from obstinacy. People are dissatisfied with what they are told and they develop new ideas.
— Dirk Kurbjuweit
If you plan to build walls around me, know this - I will walk through them.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.
— Suzanne Curchod
It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction.
— Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability.
— Michel De Montaigne
Stubbornness is surely just taut-jawed, clenched-fisted madness.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors.
— Michael Servetus
Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
— John Maynard Keynes
Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.
— Albert Camus
Would Mr. Darcy then consider the rashness of your original intention as atoned for by your obstinacy in adhering to it?
— Jane Austen
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
Many are obstinate with regard to the pathway once they have set upon it, few with regard to the goal.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I had of course met with incredulity..., but seldom with a will to incredulity.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion.
— Antoine Rivarol
Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we do not easily believe beyond what we see.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
— Michel De Montaigne
The Master was entirely free from four things: prejudice, foregone conclusions, obstinacy, and egoism.
— Confucius
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[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.
— Madame De Stael
Regard the Franj! Behold with what obstinacy they fight for their religion, while we, the Muslims, show no enthusiasm for waging holy war.
— Kenneth S. Saladin
Worldly life is not an impediment; your obstinacies and your ignorance of the self are only the impediments.
— Dada Bhagwan
For obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.
— Aeschylus
Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
— Thomas Browne
We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.
— Jan Tschichold
When people misjudge, they inhale and exhale with obstinate, stagnant prejudice." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You
— Angelica Hopes
Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures will
— Alexander MacLaren
How much must I overcome before I triumph?
— Pierre Corneille
