Obstinacy

(189 votes)   Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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(164 votes)   Who is so deaf or so blind as he that willfully will neither hear nor see?

English Proverbs
Sayings of British Origin

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(163 votes)   The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

Harriet Beecher Stowe
1811-1896, American Novelist, Antislavery Campaigner

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(150 votes)   Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we're so fond of it.

George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist

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(127 votes)   They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

Edmund Burke
1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman

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(120 votes)   He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.

Herman Melville
1819-1891, American Author

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