Margaret Thatcher
Politician
"Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus."
Obstinacy quotes
Obstinacy
16 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Michel de Montaigne
Philosopher, Writer
"And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability."
Aeschylus
Playwright
"Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom."
Albert Camus
Philosopher, Writer
"Obstinacy alone is not a virtue."
Albert Einstein
Physicist
"I owe as much of my success to an uncompromising obstinacy as to any original ideas."
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"Many are obstinate with regard to the pathway once they have set upon it, few with regard to the goal."
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