Obstinacy Quotes

Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures' will

Alexander MacLaren

My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

Oscar Wilde

Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to the acknowledgement of a divine power.

Plato

Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.

Bernard Barton

People first abandon reason, and then become obstinate; and the deeper they are in error the more angry they are.

Hugh Blair

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.

Sir Thomas Browne

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 power; as foolhardiness is not seldom the disguise of conscious timidity.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If it be true that men of strong imaginations are usually dogmatists--and I am inclined to think it is so--it ought to follow that men of weak imaginations are the reverse; in which case we should have some compensation for stupidity. But it unfortunately happens that no dogmatist is more obstinate or less open to conviction than a fool.

Charles Caleb Colton

A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.

John Dryden

Obstinacy in opinions holds the dogmatist in the chains of error, without hope of emancipation.

Joseph Glanvill

Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.

William Hazlitt

Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we do not easily believe beyond what we see.

Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.

John Locke

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

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

Jonathan Swift

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Henry Ward Beecher

May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors.

Michael Servetus

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one.

Laurence Stern

A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.

Edgar Watson Howe

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