Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy. — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we do not easily believe beyond what we see. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors. — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Many are obstinate with regard to the pathway once they have set upon it, few with regard to the goal. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Obstinacy in opinions holds the dogmatist in the chains of error, without hope of emancipation. — Joseph Glanvill 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
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
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
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
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
No man is defeated without some resentment which will be continued with obstinacy while he believes himself in the right, and asserted… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
At the back of it there lies the central citadel of obstinacy: I will not give up my right to myself--the thing… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Of course, I'm aware of the animosities destroying brain cells on both sides, and I know all about the obstinacy of the… — Yasmina Khadra 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
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
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
“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
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
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
These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with… — Anais Nin 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
The artist, surgeon, through clay form, can only look for cure with great obstinacy until he discovers, repeatedly, that love is god's… — Jabra Ibrahim Jabra 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
Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate Before he… — Jonathan Swift 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
