Human nature Quote by Chandlrababu VS

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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

— Anonymous

Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superiority…

— David Lehman

Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and stable individuality.

— Anonymous

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

— Rumer Godden

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

— William Shenstone

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

— Emile M. Cioran

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

— Sydney J. Harris

To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is…

— Samuel Johnson