Obstinacy Quotes

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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
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
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
One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy. — Man Ray
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance. — Edmund Burke
'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,-and of obstinacy in a bad one. — Laurence Sterne
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
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
Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good. — Thomas Browne
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
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
Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy. — Jan Tschichold
A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country — E. W. Howe
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
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. — Robert Peel
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
Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy. — Aaron Swartz
Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures's will. — Alexander MacLaren
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
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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