Quotes and Sayings about Obstinacy

"Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good."
- Thomas Browne
(Related: Cause, Constancy, Obstinacy)

"Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs."
- Robert Peel
(Related: Feeling, Folly, Obstinacy, Opinion, Prejudice, Public, Public opinion, Right, Weakness, Wrong)

"One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy."
- Man Ray
(Related: Genius, Obstinacy, Will)

"Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
(Related: Intellect, Obstinacy, Result, Will)

"May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors."
- Michael Servetus
(Related: God, Errors, May, Mercy, Obstinacy)

"'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one."
- Laurence Stern
(Related: Perseverance, Cause, Name, Obstinacy)

"The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Related: Cleverness, Folly, Nothing, Obstinacy, Reason)