Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong. — Suzanne Curchod Necker Copy Share Image
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I owe as much of my success to an uncompromising obstinacy as to any original ideas. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul. — Anonymous 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
Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice. — John Locke Copy Share Image
[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures' will. — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors… — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune 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
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
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If it be true that men of strong imaginations are usually dogmatists--and I am inclined to think it is so--it ought to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Where the subject lies so far beyond our reach, the difference between the highest and the lowest of human understandings may indeed… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“There is something in obstinacy which differs from every other passion; whenever it fails it never recovers, but either breaks like iron… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure,… — Samuel Johnson 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
Make something, a kind of object, which as it changes or falls apart (dies as it were) or increases in its parts… — Jasper Johns 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
The most savory grape, the one that produces the wines with best texture and aroma, the sweetest and most generous, doesn't grow… — Isabel Allende 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 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
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
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
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
Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
The Master was entirely free from four things: prejudice, foregone conclusions, obstinacy, and egoism. — Confucius Copy Share Image
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