Quotes about obstinacy

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

— Sir Thomas Browne

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

— Edmund Burke

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

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

— W. Somerset Maugham

He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.

— Herman Melville

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

— English Proverb

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

— Harriet Beecher Stowe