Obstinacy Quotes
73 quotes by 59 authors
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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
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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
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The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. But science is…
— Karl Popper
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
— Man Ray
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
— Edmund Burke
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'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,-and of obstinacy in a bad one.
— Laurence Sterne
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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
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These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition adds…
— Samuel Johnson
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Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
— Thomas Browne
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Everybody has a hard job. All real work is hard. My work happened also to be undoable. Morning after morning for 50 years, I faced…
— Philip Roth
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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…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.
— Jan Tschichold
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A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country
— E. W. Howe
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Make something, a kind of object, which as it changes or falls apart (dies as it were) or increases in its parts (grows as it…
— Jasper Johns
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Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
— Robert Peel
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Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate Before he tries a five…
— Jonathan Swift
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Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.
— Aaron Swartz
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Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures's will.
— Alexander MacLaren
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At the back of it there lies the central citadel of obstinacy: I will not give up my right to myself--the thing God intends you…
— Oswald Chambers
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I can see no justification whatever for the attitude which refuses on purely a priori grounds to accept action at a distance ... Such an…
— Percy Williams Bridgman
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