Quotes About Obstinacy

The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.

Sophokles is a playwright fascinated in general by people who say no, people who resist compromise, people who make stumbling blocks of themselves, like Antigone or Ajax.

For obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.

For the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate in order to give him into your hands, as he has now done" (Deuteronomy 2:30).

Amanda meant to move, but somehow her feet didn't do anything. They were like Quebec, determined to be independent.

In the Second World War his bulldog obstinacy proved invaluable; during the Gallipoli campaign it left him appallingly vulnerable.

You see four guys bunched on a corner waiting for you, you either run like hell in the opposite direction without hesitation, or you keep on walking without slowing down or speeding up or breaking stride...Truth is, it's smarter to run. The best fight is the one you don't have. But I have never claimed to be smart. Just obstinate, and occasionally bad-tempered. Some guys kick cats. I keep walking. - Jack Reacher

Why didn't you tell us?" She shrugged. Gallic, feminine, obstinate. "What was to tell?" she said.

And it certainly did seem a little provoking ('almost as if it happened on purpose,' she thought) that, though she managed to pick plenty of beautiful rushes as the boat glided by, there was always a more lovely one that she couldn't reach. The prettiest are always further! she said at last, with a sigh at the obstinacy of the rushes in growing so far off.

What is it that doesn't allow you to go to moksha? Obstinacy!

I'd like to know, who is more stupid and stubborn in this case – the donkey or the man?

How can you persuade a man whose livelihood depends upon him remaining unpersuaded?

Aucune drogue n'est plus puissante que le réel, m'avait dit un jour John Seasons, car le réel, malgré notre obstination arrogante, terrifiée et pleine d'espoir, n'a pas besoin de nos perceptions, tout juste de notre présence impuissante.

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

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force—

La realidad es obcecada y compleja e insiste en llevarnos obscenamente la contraria cuando nos ponemos soñadores.

I owe as much of my success to an uncompromising obstinacy as to any original ideas.

In the tradition we are dealing with, it was considered obstinacy and was therefore frowned upon to have a will and mind of one's own. It is easy to understand that an intelligent child would want to escape punishments devised for those possessing these traits and that he or she could do so without any difficulty. What the child didn't realize was that escape came at a high price.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

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

A stiffnecked people.

Mostly he misses Jutta: her loyalty, her obstinacy, the way she always seems to recognize what is right. Though in Werner's weaker moments, he resents those same qualities in his sister. Perhaps she's the impurity in him, the static in his signal that the bullies can sense.

With a kind of perverse obstinacy his father refused to take off his official uniform even in the house; and while his robe hung uselessly on the clothes hook, his father dozed, completely dressed, in his chair, as if he were always ready for duty and were waiting even here for the voice of his superior.

Era yo el que no había entendido el cambio de sentido y se obstinaba en seguir por la ruta prevista.