Obstinacy Quotes · Page 2

Sheer obstinacy is very very important for anybody who wants to create.

— Wayne White

Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.

— Aaron Swartz

Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we do not easily believe beyond what we see.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors.

— Michael Servetus

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

— Edmund Burke

Many are obstinate with regard to the pathway once they have set upon it, few with regard to the goal.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Obstinacy in opinions holds the dogmatist in the chains of error, without hope of emancipation.

— Joseph Glanvill

Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest, their suffering and their cure; but obstinacy has.

— Thomas Paine

If self is a location, so is love: Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points, Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance, Here and there…

— Seamus Heaney

Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that…

— Lev Shestov

I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Obstinacy is an impediment to the free exercise of thought. It paralyses the intelligence. Conclusions based upon preconceived ideas are valueless.”

— Patricia Wentworth

The line between pride in our work and neurotic obstinacy is a narrow one. We make our recommendations clear. But we do…

— David Ogilvy

No man is defeated without some resentment which will be continued with obstinacy while he believes himself in the right, and asserted…

— Samuel Johnson

At the back of it there lies the central citadel of obstinacy: I will not give up my right to myself--the thing…

— Oswald Chambers

Of course, I'm aware of the animosities destroying brain cells on both sides, and I know all about the obstinacy of the…

— Yasmina Khadra

Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent…

— C. S. Lewis

I saw in 'the wandering Jew' the personification of the Jewish people, exiled in the Middle Ages. Nevertheless, they are once again…

— George Sand

Incredulity is not wisdom, but the worst kind of folly. It is folly, because it causes ignorance and mistake, with all the…

— Isaac Barrow

Obstinacy, sir, is certainly a great vice; and in the changeful state of political affairs it is frequently the cause of great…

— Edmund Burke

The 'Cercle et Carré' group owes its existence to my encounter with the Uruguayan painter Torrès-Gracia in 1929... However difficult our relationship,…

— Michel Seuphor

If by sticking to the moral principles you have followed all your life, you jeopardize your happiness and that of others, throw…

— Epifanio de los Santos

As soon as you direct such a question outward to your fellow man and not inward to yourself, you have set yourself…

— Tito Colliander

Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate Before he…

— Jonathan Swift

I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism.

— Jeanne Moreau

He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.

— Herman Melville

“Whitewash on the forehead hardens the brain into a state of obstinacy, perhaps.”

— Charles Dickens

The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Many are stubborn in the pursuit of the path that they have chosen, very few in pursuit of the goal.

— Tsepiso Makhubedu

“We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.

— Karl Popper

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.

— Madame de Stael

Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.

— John Locke

Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.

— Jan Tschichold

Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.

— Anonymous

And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.

— Michel de Montaigne

I owe as much of my success to an uncompromising obstinacy as to any original ideas.

— Albert Einstein

A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.

— John Dryden