No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity. — Bernard Barton 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
“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Stubbornness is surely just taut-jawed, clenched-fisted madness.” — Richelle E. Goodrich 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
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
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
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
One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their… — John Maynard Keynes 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
You know Balbec so well - do you have friends in the area?' I have friends wherever there are companies of trees,… — Marcel Proust 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
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
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
Everybody has a hard job. All real work is hard. My work happened also to be undoable. Morning after morning for 50… — Philip Roth 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
