Stubbornness Quotes

• It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.33, Broadway Books

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• There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Courage, Women

  Jane Austen (2008). “Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.”, p.79, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• There's none so blind as those who will not listen.

  Neil Gaiman

  Blind, American Gods

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• Pettiness of mind, ignorance and presumption are the cause of stubbornness, because stubborn people only want to believe what they themselves can imagine, and they can imagine very few things.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Believe, Ignorance, People

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• There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.

  Jeb Bush

  Positive, Determination, Lines

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• Fear, anger, stubbornness, and distrust portray themselves as your rescuers. Actually these energies only make you more closed off. Tell yourself: Nobody ever solved a situation by panicking; no one ever solved a situation by refusing to hear new answers; no one solved a situation by shutting down.

  Deepak Chopra

  Balance, Energy, Shutting Down

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• Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Weak

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• A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point.

  Leon Festinger

  Confidence, Men, Psychology

  Leon Festinger, Stanley Schachter (2013). “When Prophecy Fails”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Stupid, Stubborn, Opinion

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• Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Stubborn, Mules, Jackasses

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• Smallness of mind is the cause of stubbornness, and we do not credit readily what is beyond our view.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Views, Mind, Credit

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• 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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• A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness

  Robert Southey

  Mind, Stubborn, Littles

  Robert Southey (1847). “The Doctor, &c. ...”, p.14

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

  Suzanne Curchod

  Opinion, Obstinacy, Obstinate

  "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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• 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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• And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Vigor, Obstinacy, Stability

  "Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays".

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• The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Ignorance

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• Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything else the pleasure of its autonomous intellect, to which others must bow.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Special, Bows, Faults

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.108, Princeton University Press

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• The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things.

  Phylicia Rashad

  Letting Go, Perseverance, Children

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• God has given me a mule-like stubbornness to stick with a difficult problem and the intuitive powers to conceptualize complex hypothetical situations in my mind.

  Albert Einstein

  Mind, Mules, Sticks

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• It's only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done.

  Rumer Godden

  Done, Obstinate

  RUMER GODDEN (1961). “China Court”

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• Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence: nor is the law less stable than the fact.

  John Adams

  Passion, Patriotic, Law

  John Adams (1971). “The Works [of] John Adams, Second President of the United States: Life of John Adams”

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• I don't know why I had to fall in love with someone who's more stubborn than I am.

  Cassandra Clare

  Falling In Love, Stubborn, Knows

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1620, Simon and Schuster

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

  E. W. Howe

  Country, Men, Stubborn

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• In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Stupid, Overcoming, Stubborn

  Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.71, Open Road Media

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