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stubbornness

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stubbornness (countable and uncountable, plural stubbornnesses)

The state of being stubborn.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:obstinacy
What is stubbornness? It is not only refusing to believe a crucial message, but also shunning or at least looking down on those, who stated or believed it in the first place.Perhaps only when it's found too late for regrets will that person understand.

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It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. Albert Einstein

Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything else the pleasure of its autonomous intellect, to which others must bow. Carl von Clausewitz

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me. Jane Austen

Don't lie. You know you like to view but not to buy. I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first. And that is the stubbornness in me: I do not want to be someone's little home. Jeanette Winterson

You can't heal stubbornness. Polish Proverb

Stubbornness is the greatest ill. Yiddish Proverb

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