Quotes About Obstinacy

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Newton's First was a real bitch, not open to negotiation.

If we pass now from physical nature to the moral world, we still find ourselves subject to the same deceptions of appearance, to the same influences of spontaneity and habit. But the distinguishing feature of this second division of our knowledge is, on the one hand, the good or the evil which we derive from our opinions; and, on the other, the obstinacy with which we defend the prejudice which is tormenting and killing us.

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

Many asses have only two legs.

He won't, won't he? Then bring me my boots.

For a bag of pepper, they could cut each other's throats without hesitation, and would forswear their souls... The bizarre obstinacy of that desire made them defy death in a thousand shapes; the unknown seas, the loathsome diseases; wounds, captivity, hunger, pestilence and despair. It made them great! By heavens! It made them heroic; and it made them pathetic, too, in their craving for trade with the inflexible death levying its toll on young and old

Como ya dije antes, cuando una mente rígida establece un juicio acerca de alguien o algo permanece anclada o apegada a él de manera obstinada, sin realizar ajustes sustanciales, aunque la experiencia le demuestre lo contrario.

Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart.

An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.

I am left with the conviction that an avalanche would be easier to dissuade than that man.

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accompli.

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

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.

At the back of it there lies the central citadel of obstinacy: I will not give up my right to myself--the thing God intends you to give up if ever you are going to be a disciple of Jesus Christ.

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

It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy.

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

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

Stubbornness is the bearer of disaster…"

Like the boy who drives his little Indian pigs to the fold, whose obstinacy impels them divers ways, and thus obliges him first to apply to one and then to another till he can succeed in penning them all, so are we obliged to play the same game with the personages of our story.

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

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.