Obstinacy

Obstinacy is acting in a manner characterized by stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course, usually with implied unreasonableness.

Quotes

• 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.
  • Bishop Joseph Butler, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 437.

• We sometimes speak of stubborn facts. Nonsense! A fact is a mere babe when compared with a stubborn theory.
  • Samuel McChord Crothers, The Gentle Reader (1903) p. 277

• His still refuted quirks he still repeats,
  New-raised objections with new quibbles meets;
  Till sinking in the quicksand he defends,
  He dies disputing, and the contest ends.
  • William Cowper, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 437.

• Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.
  • Madame Necker; reported in Louis Klopsch, ed., Many Thoughts of Many Minds: A Treasury of Quotations From the Literature of Every Land and Every Age (1896), p. 195.

References

• Klopsch, Louis, 1852-1910 (1896). Many Thoughts of Many Minds. 

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