Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong. — Suzanne Curchod Necker 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
Sheer obstinacy is very very important for anybody who wants to create. — Wayne White 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
“If you plan to build walls around me, know this—I will walk through them.” — Richelle E. Goodrich 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
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 Copy Share Image
The line between pride in our work and neurotic obstinacy is a narrow one. We make our recommendations clear. But we do… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
“Obstinacy is an impediment to the free exercise of thought. It paralyses the intelligence. Conclusions based upon preconceived ideas are valueless.” — Patricia Wentworth 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
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
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
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
Obstinacy, sir, is certainly a great vice; and in the changeful state of political affairs it is frequently the cause of great… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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
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
“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 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
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
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
“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
