"Stiff opinion, always in the wrong." — John Dryden

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• The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong… — Henry Ward Beecher
• Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than… — Michel de Montaigne
• The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and… — 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… — 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,… — 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… — Philip Roth
• Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is… — Henri Frederic Amiel
• 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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