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Persistence is a strong will. Obstinance is a strong won
-Anon.
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Who is so deaf or so blind as he that willfully will neither hear nor see?
-English Proverb
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Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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...there is a difference between being convinced and being stubborn. I
Said in 1979, on giving up her attempt to be named director of the television version of the first volume of her autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
-Maya Angelou
As quoted in Reel Women part 4, by Ally Acker
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Obstinate people can be divded into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.
-Aristotle
Nichomachean Ethics, Bk. VII
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Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you're going to be thinking tomorrow.
-Glen Beaman
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In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
-Simone de Beauvoir
The Ethics of Ambiguity, 1948
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Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
-Sir Thomas Browne
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
-Edmund Burke
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A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led.
-Alexander Cannon
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Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
-John Dewey
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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.
-George Eliot
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Obstinacy in opinions holds the dogmatist in the chains of error, without hope of emancipation.
-John C. Granville
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Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.
-Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
-W. Somerset Maugham
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He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.
-Herman Melville
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Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability.
-Michel de Montaigne
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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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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
-Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Brutes find out where their talents lie;
A bear will not attempt to fly,
A foundered horse will oft debate
Before he tries a five barred gate.
A dog by instinct turns aside
Who sees the ditch too deep and wide,
But man we find the only creature
Who, led by folly, combats nature;
Who, when she loudly cries
-Jonathan Swift
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Stubborness we deprecate,
Firmness we condone,
The former is our neighbors trait,
The latter is our own.
-John Wooden
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Books about Stubbornness
