Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom. — Aeschylus 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
Seas of blood have been shed for the sake of patriotism. One would expect the harm and irrationality of patriotism to be… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity. — Bernard Barton Copy Share Image
It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and… — Benjamin Whichcote 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
No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
As soon as you direct such a question outward to your fellow man and not inward to yourself, you have set yourself… — Tito Colliander 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
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 thou art indeed my father, then hast thou stained thy sword in the life-blood of thy son. And thou didst it… — Khaled Hosseini 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
... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity,… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance. — Edmund Burke 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
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
Incredulity is not wisdom, but the worst kind of folly. It is folly, because it causes ignorance and mistake, with all the… — Isaac Barrow 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
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
Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy. — Jan Tschichold 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
