...there is a difference between being convinced and being stubborn. I
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Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were they all fused into a single stubbornness.
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It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.
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It is easy to talk of sitting at home contented, when others are seeing or making shows. But not to have been where it is supposed, and seldom supposed falsely, that all would go if they could; to be able to say nothing when everyone is talking; to have no opinion when everyone is judging; to hear exclamations of rapture without power to depress; to listen to falsehoods without right to contradict, is, after all, a state of temporary inferiority, in which the mind is rather hardened by stubbornness, than supported by fortitude. If the world be worth winning let us enjoy it, if it is to be despised let us despise it by conviction. But the world is not to be despised but as it is compared with something better.
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Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
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Obstinate people can be divded into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.
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In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
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A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led.
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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.
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Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we're so fond of it.
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Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from won't power to will power.
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Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you're going to be thinking tomorrow.
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Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
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Who is so deaf or so blind as he that willfully will neither hear nor see?
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Persistence is a strong will. Obstinance is a strong won
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