Intellect Quote by 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 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

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 is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability.

— Michel de Montaigne

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.

— Anonymous

“13. The actions of Obstinate and Pliable confirm the simple lesson that the world does not easily or readily give up its citizens. Obstinate…

— John Bunyan

And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.

— Michel de Montaigne

“Let it be virtuous to be obstinate.”

— William Shakespeare

It's only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done.

— Rumer Godden

OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.

— Ambrose Bierce

Obstructiveness is a practice committed out of jealousy, ego, or revenge amongst humans from time immemorial.

— Chandlrababu VS