Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors.
'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one.
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
Like the periwig and the bowler bat, the plus-four and the bow-tie, the blazer is on the way out, and those who persist in wearing it do so with a smattering of self-consciousness, a touch of obstinacy, even a pinch of camp.
When a woman falls in love with me, I feel guilty. I am convinced that it's pure obstinacy that keeps me from reciprocating her passion. As I explain to her that I'm gay, it sounds, even to me, like a silly excuse; I scarcely believe it myself.
One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.