Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong. — Suzanne Curchod Necker 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
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
Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity. — Bernard Barton Copy Share Image
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance. — Edmund Burke 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
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
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
“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
If self is a location, so is love: Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points, Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance, Here and there… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that… — Lev Shestov 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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 Copy Share Image
I saw in 'the wandering Jew' the personification of the Jewish people, exiled in the Middle Ages. Nevertheless, they are once again… — George Sand 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
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
Many are obstinate with regard to the pathway once they have set upon it, few with regard to the goal. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we do not easily believe beyond what we see. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors. — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
Many are stubborn in the pursuit of the path that they have chosen, very few in pursuit of the goal. — Tsepiso Makhubedu Copy Share Image
Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest, their suffering and their cure; but obstinacy has. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Whitewash on the forehead hardens the brain into a state of obstinacy, perhaps.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
