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  1. A quotation from Gracian

    Never from Obstinacy take the Wrong Side because your Opponent has anticipated you in taking the Right One.
     
    [Nunca por tema seguir el peor partido, porque el contrario se adelantó y escogió el mejor.]

    Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601–1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 142 (1647) [tr. Jacobs (1892)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/gracian-y-morales-ba…

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  2. A quotation from Gracian

    Never from Obstinacy take the Wrong Side because your Opponent has anticipated you in taking the Right One.
     
    [Nunca por tema seguir el peor partido, porque el contrario se adelantó y escogió el mejor.]

    Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601–1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 142 (1647) [tr. Jacobs (1892)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/gracian-y-morales-ba…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #gracian #baltasargracian #adversary #error #obstinacy #partisanship #position #pride #righteousness #sides #stubbornness #wrong

  3. A quotation from Gracian

    Never from Obstinacy take the Wrong Side because your Opponent has anticipated you in taking the Right One.
     
    [Nunca por tema seguir el peor partido, porque el contrario se adelantó y escogió el mejor.]

    Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601–1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 142 (1647) [tr. Jacobs (1892)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/gracian-y-morales-ba…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #gracian #baltasargracian #adversary #error #obstinacy #partisanship #position #pride #righteousness #sides #stubbornness #wrong

  4. A quotation from Gracian

    Never from Obstinacy take the Wrong Side because your Opponent has anticipated you in taking the Right One.
     
    [Nunca por tema seguir el peor partido, porque el contrario se adelantó y escogió el mejor.]

    Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601–1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 142 (1647) [tr. Jacobs (1892)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/gracian-y-morales-ba…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #gracian #baltasargracian #adversary #error #obstinacy #partisanship #position #pride #righteousness #sides #stubbornness #wrong

  5. A quotation from Gracian

    Never from Obstinacy take the Wrong Side because your Opponent has anticipated you in taking the Right One.
     
    [Nunca por tema seguir el peor partido, porque el contrario se adelantó y escogió el mejor.]

    Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601–1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 142 (1647) [tr. Jacobs (1892)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/gracian-y-morales-ba…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #gracian #baltasargracian #adversary #error #obstinacy #partisanship #position #pride #righteousness #sides #stubbornness #wrong

  6. A quotation from Josh Billings

    Whare thare iz one man obstinate bekauze he iz wize, thare iz 4,695,853 obstinate bekauze they are ignorant.
     
    [Where there is one man obstinate because he is wise, there are 4,685,853 obstinate because they are ignorant.]

    Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
    Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1874-12 (1874 ed.)

    More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/83874/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #conviction #determination #ignorance #obstinacy #sticktoit #stubbornness #wisdom