Fitness Quote by Patricia Wentworth

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

“Let it be virtuous to be obstinate.”

— William Shakespeare

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

— Anonymous

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

— Michel de Montaigne

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

“The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.…

— ralph waldo emerson

“Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.”

— Martin Heidegger

“The mind has the Propensity to Excel along the Path of least resistance thereby ostracising other equally important "concepts" It is this lack of…

— Archibald Gumiro

“I suppose that, so long as the human mind exists, it will not escape its deep-seated instinct to personify its intellectual conceptions. The science…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“The quest for absolute certainty is an immature, if not infantile, trait of thinking.”

— Herbert Feigl

“Cleverness as opposed to wisdom. Wanting and having instead of thinking and making.”

— David Foster Wallace