Quotes About Obstinacy

No amount of reasonable threats prevailed.

Because—and don't let anybody tell you different—novel writing is mostly triage (this now, that later) and obstinacy.

Should I get you a shovel, so you can dig that hole deeper?

The obstinacy on which power is based is never so fragile as in the moment of its triumph.

Of course, I'm aware of the animosities destroying brain cells on both sides, and I know all about the obstinacy of the warring parties, their refusal to reach an agreement, their devotion to their own murderous hatred….

All my problems bow before my stubbornness.

Unbelief hardness human heart to be like a rock.

Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.

There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.

Not only are we subject to cognitive biases, we also frequently seek out things that reinforce them. We interpret facts through the prism of our beliefs; we read the newspapers and seek the company of people who will confirm us in those beliefs; and thus we stick obstinately to these beliefs, whether or not they are correct.

No she wouldn't," Miles said. "An ass is an ass

Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.

A man convinced against his will is not convinced.

Like a lot of stupid people, it took a great deal to get an idea into the king's head but once there, there was no shifting it.

Can't you . . . I don't know. Find a hobby or something?" "Being charming is my hobby," said Adrian obstinately. "I'm the life of the party— even without drinking. I wasn't meant to be alone.

Brother, Cap said, he's a Pig-nut! Pig-nut? I asked. Pig-nut, Cap repeated. You can tell a man with brains he's wrong and he'll try to fix things up: but you take and tell a pig-nut he's wrong, and he'll spend the rest of his life trying to have something heavy fall on you when you ain't looking. - From Kennebunk born Pulitzer Prize winner Kenneth Roberts' 1933 novel Rabble in Arms.

A stubborn ass needs a stubborn driver

If thou art indeed my father, then hast thou stained thy sword in the life-blood of thy son. And thous didst it of thine obstinacy. For I sought to turn thee unto love, and I implored of thee thy name, for I thought to behold in thee the tokens recounted of my mother. But I appealed unto thy heart in vain, and now is the time gone for meeting.

No matter how much I kept telling myself that I was behaving like an idiot, it was no use.

I can hardly regard her in the light of a rational creature, so obstinately has she persisted in forming a fabulous notion of my character and acting on the false impressions she cherished.

If a man, said Epictetus, opposes evident truths, it is not easy to find arguments by which we shall make him change his opinion. But this does not arise either from the man's strength or the teacher's weakness; for when the man, though he has been confuted, is hardened like a stone, how shall we then be able to deal with him by argument?

The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.

Oh, God, she loathed them all! Mindless, stupid men. Playing with the lives of other men, knowing so little, thinking they knew so much. They had not listened! They never listened until it was too late, and then only with stern forbearance and strong reminders of what might have been—had things been as they were perceived to be, which they were not. The corruption came from blindness, the lies from obstinacy and embarrassment. Do not embarrass the powerful; the napalm said it all.

Pussy, however, refused to get down.