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Sermon Quotations Archive
Quotations regarding 'Obstinacy'
8 entries
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, American Clergyman (1813-1887)
Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
Thomas Browne, British Scientist (1605-1682)
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
Robert Peel, English Leader (1778-1850)
One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
Man Ray, American Photographer (1890-1976)
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher (1788-1860)
May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors.
Michael Servetus, Spanish Scientist (1511-1553)
'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one.
Laurence Stern, Irish Clergyman (1713-1768)
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, American Author (1811-1896)
8 entries