Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong. — Suzanne Curchod Necker Copy Share Image
“Stubbornness is surely just taut-jawed, clenched-fisted madness.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Smallness of mind is the cause of stubbornness, and we do not credit readily what is beyond our view. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“If you plan to build walls around me, know this—I will walk through them.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,-and of obstinacy in a bad one. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity. — Bernard Barton Copy Share Image
One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
When a woman falls in love with me, I feel guilty. I am convinced that it's pure obstinacy that keeps me from… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
A nation ignorant of the equal benefits of liberty and law, must be awed by the flashes of arbitrary power: the cruelty… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“If you use obstinacy against obstinacy in this world; you will never come up with a solution. Simplicity against obstinacy will bring… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Like the periwig and the bowler bat, the plus-four and the bow-tie, the blazer is on the way out, and those who… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
In trying to explain our political paralysis, analysts cite President Obama's tactical missteps, the obstinacy of congressional Republicans, rising partisanship in Washington,… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
General scepticism is the live mental attitude of refusing to conclude. It is a permanent torpor of the will, renewing itself in… — William James Copy Share Image
You know Balbec so well - do you have friends in the area?' I have friends wherever there are companies of trees,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
For a bag of pepper, they could cut each other's throats without hesitation, and would forswear their souls... The bizarre obstinacy of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“One should not be obstinate even in worldly interaction. If you are obstinate with a ‘collector’, what will he do? He will… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Everybody has a hard job. All real work is hard. My work happened also to be undoable. Morning after morning for 50… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The shortest route is not the most direct one, but rather the one where the most favorable winds swell our sails:Mthat is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But I liked you from the moment I first heard your voice,” he said, “when I had no idea what you looked… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“Stubbornness is a weapon. People tend to draw it out when a sensitive part of their identity is threatened—be it dignity, honor,… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
At the moment we have a critical situation in Greece. Even as we speak, where there is an open attempt by the… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
But this inestimable privilege was soon violated: with the knowledge of truth the emperor imbibed the maxims of persecution; and the sects… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
That the boat did not upset I simply state as a fact. Why it did not upset I am unable to offer… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
