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An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for
when he is once possessed with an error it is like a devil,
only cast out with great difficulty. Whatsoever he lays hold
of, like a drowning man, he never loses, though it do but help
to sink him the sooner. His ignorance is abrupt and
inaccessible, impregnable both by art and nature, and will hold
out to the last, though it has nothing but rubbish to defend.
Butler
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.
Amiel
Obstinacy and contradiction are like a paper kite: they are
only kept up so long as you pull against them.
Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon
principle, upon truth and right, order and law, duty and
generosity, is the obstinacy of sages.
Lavater
Obstinacy and vehemency of opinion are the surest proofs of
stupidity.
Barton
Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is
there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful,
contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?
Montaigne
Obstinacy is ever most positive when most in the wrong.
Mad. Necker
Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing
in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
Montaigne
There are few, very few, who will own themselves in a mistake.
Swift
The slighter and more inconsistent the opinions of the
obstinate man are, the faster he holds to them, otherwise they
would fall apart of themselves: for opinions that are false he
holds with more strictness and assurance than those that are
true. He is resolved to understand no man's reason but his
own, because he finds no man can understand his but himself.
His opinions are like plants that grow upon rocks, that stick
fast, though they have no rooting.
Butler
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