Able Quote by Henri Frederic Amiel

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

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

— Patricia Wentworth

Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.

— Albert Camus

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

— Chandlrababu VS

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

— Michel de Montaigne

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

“There is something in obstinacy which differs from every other passion; whenever it fails it never recovers, but either breaks like iron or crumbles…

— Anonymous

Without making any moral judgements whatsoever, one can say that self-indulgence and excessive self-preoccupation are the antithesis of genuine awareness.

— Ronald Rolheiser

Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and exalts it…

— Carl Jung

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

— Anonymous