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  • Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good. -- Thomas Browne
  • Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity. -- Bernard Barton
  • Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong. -- Suzanne Curchod
  • Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability. -- Michel de Montaigne
  • Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul. -- Michel de Montaigne
  • Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass? -- Michel de Montaigne
  • Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
  • 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. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
  • Obstinacy alone is not a virtue. -- Albert Camus
  • Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward. -- John Maynard Keynes
  • One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy. -- Man Ray
  • May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors. -- Michael Servetus
  • The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. -- Robert Peel
  • Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom. -- Aeschylus
  • The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. -- Henry Ward Beecher
  • Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass? -- Michel de Montaigne
  • 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
  • A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see. -- John Dryden
  • The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
  • Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,-and of obstinacy in a bad one. -- Laurence Sterne
  • Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures's will. -- Alexander MacLaren
  • Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we do not easily believe beyond what we see. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. -- Karl Popper
  • Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly. -- William Hazlitt
  • I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect of voluntary power; as foolhardiness is not seldom the disguise of conscious timidity. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • There is something in obstinacy which differs from every other passion. Whenever it fails, it never recovers, but either breaks like iron, or crumbles sulkily away, like a fractured arch. Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest, their sufferings and their cure; but obstinacy has no resource, and the first wound is mortal. -- Samuel Johnson
  • Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one. -- Laurence Sterne
  • Like the periwig and the bowler bat, the plus-four and the bow-tie, the blazer is on the way out, and those who persist in wearing it do so with a smattering of self-consciousness, a touch of obstinacy, even a pinch of camp. -- Craig Brown
  • When a woman falls in love with me, I feel guilty. I am convinced that it's pure obstinacy that keeps me from reciprocating her passion. As I explain to her that I'm gay, it sounds, even to me, like a silly excuse; I scarcely believe it myself. -- Edmund White
  • Sheer obstinacy is very very important for anybody who wants to create. -- Wayne White
  • [The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness. -- Madame de Stael
  • Whitewash on the forehead hardens the brain into a state of obstinacy, perhaps. -- Charles Dickens
  • Your obstinacy towards your goals gives you ignition which leads to your success. -- omer dar
  • The Master was entirely free from four things: prejudice, foregone conclusions, obstinacy, and egoism. -- Confucius
  • I owe as much of my success to an uncompromising obstinacy as to any original ideas. -- Albert Einstein
  • Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy. -- Aaron Swartz
  • No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion. -- Henry Ward Beecher
  • 'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,-and of obstinacy in a bad one. -- Laurence Sterne
  • Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy. -- Jan Tschichold
  • The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion. -- Antoine Rivarol
  • We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism. -- Jeanne Moreau
  • the difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won't -- Henry Ward Beecher
  • It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction. -- Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune
  • Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst. -- Voltaire
  • Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that irritated the righteous to madness. -- Lev Shestov
  • One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accompli. -- John Maynard Keynes
  • I can see no justification whatever for the attitude which refuses on purely a priori grounds to accept action at a distance ... Such an attitude bespeaks an unimaginativeness, a mental obtuseness and obstinacy. -- Percy Williams Bridgman
  • It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy. -- Benjamin Whichcote
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