Obstinacy Quotes · Page 2

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

— Madame de Stael

People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with…

— Anais Nin

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

Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is…

— Voltaire

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

— Charles Dickens

Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.

— Suzanne Curchod Necker

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

— Tsepiso Makhubedu

I can see no justification whatever for the attitude which refuses on purely a priori grounds to accept action at a distance…

— Percy Williams Bridgman

“One should not be obstinate even in worldly interaction. If you are obstinate with a ‘collector’, what will he do? He will…

— Dada Bhagwan

“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.”

— Amit Kalantri

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

— Karl Popper

Smallness of mind is the cause of stubbornness, and we do not credit readily what is beyond our view.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Albert Einstein

But this inestimable privilege was soon violated: with the knowledge of truth the emperor imbibed the maxims of persecution; and the sects…

— Edward Gibbon

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

Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.

— Albert Camus

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

— John Dryden

“Repetition of an argument proves your determination, not truth.”

— Raheel Farooq

How much must I overcome before I triumph?

— Pierre Corneille

One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

— Man Ray

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

— Edmund Burke

Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability.

— Michel de Montaigne

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

— Michel de Montaigne

Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as…

— Michel de Montaigne

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe