#obstinacy

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. ↗

— Robert Peel

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Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors. ↗

— Michael Servetus

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

— Laurence Stern

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

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

— Thomas Browne

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