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Obstinacy Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- 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…
- Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining…
More Obstinacy Quotes
- 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.… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Philip Roth
- Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity… — Henri Frederic Amiel
- Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy. — Jan Tschichold