Definition of Obstinacy

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Obstinacy

A fixedness in will, opinion, or resolution that can not be shaken at all, or only with great difficulty; firm and usually unreasonable adherence to an opinion, purpose, or system; unyielding disposition; stubborness; pertinacity; persistency; contumacy.

The quality or state of being difficult to remedy, relieve, or subdue; as, the obstinacy of a disease or evil.

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Obstinacy Quotations

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
Arthur Schopenhauer

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

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
Robert Peel

One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
Man Ray

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
Thomas Browne

May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors.
Michael Servetus

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one.
Laurence Stern

Obstinacy Translations

obstinacy in French is obstination
obstinacy in German is Eigensinn, Sturheit, Eigensinns
obstinacy in Italian is cocciutaggine
obstinacy in Latin is pertinacia
obstinacy in Swedish is envishet, trots

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