Obstinate Quotes Page 2

The observation that species are amazingly conservative and static entities throughout long periods of time has all the qualities of the emperor's new clothes: everyone knew it but preferred to ignore it. Paleontologists, faced with a recalcitrant record obstinately refusing to yield Darwin's predicted pattern, simply looked the other way.

Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand dimensions and delusions he himself has never lived through? Propaganda, coercion, and scientific proofs are powerless. But happily, in our world there is a way. It is art, and it is literature.

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

The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious, ... but by those whom good education, sound morality, and virtue have rendered more free.

Public opinion actually applauds the young woman venturing into the business world, but it still obstinately (and quite illogically) protects the young man in his sacred right to know nothing of housework.

Timidity is a disease of the mind, obstinate and fatal;

for a man once persuaded that any impediment is insuperable has given it, with respect to himself, that strength and weight which it had not before.

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

My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.

Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.

Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside.

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

If it be true that men of strong imaginations are usually dogmatists--and I am inclined to think it is so--it ought to follow that men of weak imaginations are the reverse; in which case we should have some compensation for stupidity. But it unfortunately happens that no dogmatist is more obstinate or less open to conviction than a fool.

My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy;

yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.

Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.

resolute, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve.

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.

The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.

There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.

The time of reckoning will at length arrive.

And when finallly summoned to the bar of God, to give an account of our stewardship, what plea can we have to urge in our defense, if we remain willingly, and obstinately ignorant of the way which leads to life, with such transcendent means of knowing it, and such urgent motives to its pursuit?

In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.

To persevere In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief.

The shortest route is not the most direct one, but rather the one where the most favorable winds swell our sails:Mthat is the lesson that seafarers teach. Not to abide by this lesson is to be obstinate: here, firmness of character is tainted with stupidity.

Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen natures; for they struggle hard to be such.

Presumption will be easily corrected;

but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.

They also have at that critical point of death the opportunity to be converted to God through repentance. And if they are so obstinate that even at the point of death their heart does not draw back from malice, it is possible to make a quite probable judgment that they would never come away from evil.

The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor.

Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly.

Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?

Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we do not easily believe beyond what we see.

I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.

The tyranny of mankind; it was like the obstinate drip of water falling on a stone and hollowing it little by little; and this drip continued, falling obstinately, falling without pause on the souls of the children.