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It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.
Michel de Montaigne
Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Obstinate people can be divded into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.
Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics,
...there is a difference between being convinced and being stubborn. ISaid in 1979, on giving up her attempt to be named director of the television version of the first volume of her autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou, As quoted in Reel
Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate Before he tries a five barred gate. A dog by instinct turns aside Who sees the ditch too deep and wide, But man we find the only creature Who, led by folly, combats nature; Who, when she loudly cries
Jonathan Swift
Obstinacy in opinions holds the dogmatist in the chains of error, without hope of emancipation.
John C. Granville
Persistence is a strong will. Obstinance is a strong won
Anon.
Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you're going to be thinking tomorrow.
Glen Beaman
He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.
Herman Melville
Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Stubborness we deprecate,Firmness we condone,The former is our neighbors trait,The latter is our own.
John Wooden
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
W. Somerset Maugham
Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability.
In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics o
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Who is so deaf or so blind as he that willfully will neither hear nor see?
English Proverb
Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
Sir Thomas Browne
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
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
Edmund Burke
There's none so blind as those who will not listen.
Neil Gaiman
