Obstinacy Quote by Bernard Barton Download Open image “Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.” — Bernard Barton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Obstinacy Opinion Proof Stupidity
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Considering how often throughout history even intelligent people have been proved to be wrong, it is amazing that there are still people who are… — Thomas Sowell 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
Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively. — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
What we opprobriously call stupidity, though not an enlivening quality in common society, is nature's favorite resource for preserving steadiness of conduct and consistency… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Stupidity is nature's favorite resource for preserving consistency of opinion. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things. — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
The height of stupidity is most clearly demonstrated by the individual who ridicules something he knows nothing about. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
That thorny path, those stormy skies, have drawn our spirits nearer; and rendered us, by sorrow's ties, each to the other dearer. — Bernard Barton Copy Share Image
No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of… — Bernard Barton Copy Share Image
Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee,… — Bernard Barton Copy Share Image
As I walk'd by myself, I talk'd to myself, And myself replied to me; And the questions myself then put to myself, With their… — Bernard Barton 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 or ambition… — Samuel Johnson 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, pride, desires,… — Richelle E. Goodrich 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
Make something, a kind of object, which as it changes or falls apart (dies as it were) or increases in its parts (grows as… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
If self is a location, so is love: Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points, Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance, Here and there and now… — Seamus Heaney 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 like. I… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors. — Michael Servetus 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 inaction. — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune 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 reciprocating her… — Edmund White 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
