Quotes about obstinacy

"Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good."

Browne, Sir Thomas on obstinacy   

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"They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance."

Burke, Edmund on obstinacy
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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."

Eliot, George on obstinacy   

"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."

Maugham, W. Somerset on obstinacy
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"He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes."

Melville, Herman on obstinacy   

"Who is so deaf or so blind as he that willfully will neither hear nor see?"

Proverb, English on obstinacy   

"The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity."

Stowe, Harriet Beecher on obstinacy