OBSTINACY

Related Subjects: Argument, Bigotry, Dogmatism, Opinion, Perseverance, Perversity, Resolution

1. Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.—SIR THOMAS BROWNE,
   Religio Medici
   

2. Where Obstinacy takes his sturdy stand,
   To disconcert what Policy has plann'd.—COWPER, Expostulation
   

3. Man is a creature of a wilful head,
   And hardly driven is, but eas'ly led.—SAMUEL DANIEL. Queen's Arcadia
   

4. Oh, my dear Kepler, how I wish that we could have one hearty laugh together. Here at Padua, is the principal professor of philosophy whom I have repeatedly and urgently requested to look at the moon and planets through my glass, which he pertinaciously refuses to do. Why are you not here? What shouts of laughter we should have at this glorious folly.—GALILEO, to John Kepler
   

5. The gods that unrelenting breast have steel'd,
   And curs'd thee with a mind that cannot yield.—HOMER, Iliad
   

6. Obstinacy and heat of opinion are the surest proof of stupidity.—MONTAIGNE, Essays
   

7. Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.—Proverb
   

8. You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drink when and what he pleaseth.—Proverb
   

9. It is self-conceit that makes opinion obstinate.—Proverb
   

10. A wilful man never wants woe.—Proverb
    

11. Let it be virtuous to be obstinate.—SHAKESPEARE, Coriolanus
    

12. I'll not budge an inch.—SHAKESPEARE, The Taming of the Shrew