“ Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. ”
- Arthur Schopenhauer- Copy
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“ The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. ”
- Harriet Beecher Stowe- Copy
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“ Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
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“ He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. ”
- Herman Melville- Copy
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“ Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we're so fond of it. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ As a result of these new conditions, the States, cities, and towns were welded together, and population and prosperity increased rapidly in those inland sections which had formerly languished because they had no means of easy and rapid communication. ”
- John Moody- Copy
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“ Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
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“ Optimism is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
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“ Obstinacy in opinions holds the dogmatist in the chains of error, without the hope of emancipation. ”
- John C. Granville- Copy
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“ Thanks to God that he gave me stubbornness when I know I am right. ”
- John Adams- Copy
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“ Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it. ”
- Rabindranath Tagore- Copy
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“ I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns. ”
- Ella Fitzgerald- Copy
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“ A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country. ”
- Edgar Watson Howe- Copy
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“ Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility it becomes rashness or obstinacy. ”
- J. Swartz- Copy
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“ We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy. The popular type and exponent of obstinacy is the mule, a most intelligent animal. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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