Becoming Quote by Anonymous

Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything else the…

— Carl von Clausewitz

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Obstinacy is an impediment to the free exercise of thought. It paralyses the intelligence. Conclusions based upon preconceived ideas are valueless.”

— Patricia Wentworth

Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect of voluntary…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.

— Albert Camus

“A person who holds strong convictions might appear inflexible, impolite, or exceptionally obtuse, when they are merely direct.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.

— Tacitus

All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never…

— Samuel Johnson

“IT is not easy—perhaps not even desirable—to judge other people by a consistent standard. Conduct obnoxious, even unbearable, in one person may be readily…

— Anthony Powell

Of all kinds of credulity, the most obstinate is that of party-spirit; of men, who, being numbered, they know not why, in any party,…

— Samuel Johnson

In dispute & aggression ,wisdom,cool & calm, paves the way for culmination of unfortunate moments.

— Anonymous