Quote by William Shakespeare Download Open image ““Let it be virtuous to be obstinate.”” — William Shakespeare ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Obstinacy is an impediment to the free exercise of thought. It paralyses the intelligence. Conclusions based upon preconceived ideas are valueless.” — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I am generous to conceal my… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Be not querulous, be Content with little, be kind, be free; avoid all superfluity, all vain prattling; be magnanimous.” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Let them judge you, but remain virtuous. Let them criticize you, but remain wise. Let them misunderstand you, but remain kind. Let them hate… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“Even if one has learned all the sayings of the sages and saints, he should not insist on them obstinately.” — Asakura Soteki Copy Share Image
“We should accept indiscriminately all His dispensations, whether obscurity or illumination, fruitfulness or barrenness, weakness or strength, sweetness or bitterness, temptations, distractions, pain, weariness,… — Madame Guyon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep’st so sound. Julius Caesar (2.1.248-251)” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Have you not heard it said full oft, A woman's nay doth stand for naught? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
