Obstinacy Quotes

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. - Arthur Schopenhauer quote.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
— Arthur Schopenhauer Parerga and Paralipomena

objectivity

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good. - Sir Thomas Browne quote.

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
— Sir Thomas Browne Religio Medici

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance. - Edmund Burke quote.

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

She had the bulging forehead of obstinacy, and there was strength in every motion of her short arms.

Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest; their suffering and their cure; but obstinacy has no resource, and the first wound is mortal. - Thomas Paine quote.

Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest; their suffering and their cure; but obstinacy has no resource, and the first wound is mortal.

Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and obstinacy in a bad one.

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