Obstinate Quotes

• A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led.

  Alexander Cannon

  Intellectual, Intelligence, Mind

  Alexander Cannon (2012). “The Invisible Influence”, p.6, David & Charles

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• 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

  Inspirational, Success, Perseverance

  "Proverbial Wisdom: Proverbs, Maxims and Ethical Sentences, of Interest to All Classes of Men". Book by Abram N. Coleman, p. 233, 1903.

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Pessimism, Stubbornness

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2013). “Religion From the Essays of Arhur Schopenhauer”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

  Edmund Burke

  Failure, Errors, Political

  Edmund Burke, James BURKE (Barrister-at-Law.) (1854). “The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke”, p.178

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

  Bernard Barton

  Stupidity, Opinion, Proof

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• Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Life, Atheism, Hated

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2009). “Frankenstein: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.401, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Obstinate, headstrong girl!

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Prejudice, Headstrong

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.187, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Global Warming, Obstinacy, Fashionable

  "Empowering girls is about rights, not just economics" by Tanya Barron, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2014.

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• The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

  Allan Bloom

  Inspiring, Education, Philosophy

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.

  Suzanne Curchod

  Opinion, Stubbornness, Obstinacy

  "Many Thoughts of Many Minds: A Treasury of Quotations From the Literature of Every Land and Every Age" edited by Louis Klopsch, (p. 195), 1896.

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• Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Vanity, Cases

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “The Wrecker: Stevenson's Vol. 19”, p.56, VM eBooks

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

  Thomas Browne

  Causes, Stubbornness, Obstinacy

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 1, sect. 25

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• Who is so deaf or so blind as is he that willfully will neither hear nor see?

  John Heywood

  Knowledge, Blind, Deaf

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• What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.

  Barbra Streisand

  Strength, Crazy, Two

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• The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Clever, Literature, Reason

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes, Or, The Little Failings which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.70

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• I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

  Agatha Christie

  Men, Arguing, Spite

  Agatha Christie (1989). “Murderers abroad: five complete novels”, Outlet

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• Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

  William Cobbett

  Integrity, Men, Opinion

  William Cobbett (1836). “Beauties of Cobbett”, p.70

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• The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

  Gabriel Marcel

  Philosophy, Taken, Battle

  Gabriel Marcel (1952). “Men against humanity”

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• True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

  Akhenaton

  Wise, Wisdom, Ignorance

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• He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.

  Herman Melville

  Devil, Baggage, Thunder

  1851 Of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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• I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Addiction, Progress

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.28, Psychology Press

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• I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool.

  Bertrand Russell

  Stupid, Pigs, Fool

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• Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Sibling, Individual Work, World

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• Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

  Robert Peel

  Feelings, Weakness, Public Opinion

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• 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 de Montaigne

  Stubborn, Serious, Heat

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