Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Many are obstinate with regard to the pathway once they have set upon it, few with regard to the goal. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Charlotte slammed the paper down onto her desk with an exclamation of rage. “Aloysius Starkweather is the most stubborn, hypocritical, obstinate, degenerate—”… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power..... — Plato Copy Share Image
Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate a passion, and works its way through so many real dangers and difficulties, that… — David Hume Copy Share Image
A powerful portfolio of physiological and behavioural evidence now exists to support the case that fish feel pain and that this feeling… — John Webster Copy Share Image
The pastoral labours of the archbishop of Constantinople provoked and gradually united against him two sorts of enemies; the aspiring clergy, who… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we do not easily believe beyond what we see. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I've been called 'hardheaded,' 'obstinate,' 'unreasonable,' etc. — Benigno Aquino III Copy Share Image
Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
Every day that we allow ourselves to take things for granted, every day that we allow some little physical infirmity or worldly… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
When the Gauls laid waste Rome, they found the senators clothed in their robes, and seated in stern tranquillity in their curule… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find. — Francis Aungier Copy Share Image
And she hates being managed - that is not the word I want. What is it, Maturin?' 'Manipulated.' 'Exactly. She is a… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit… — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
