The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you. — Martial Copy Share Image
Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. — William James Copy Share Image
Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. — Herman Melville 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
The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor. — Leonardo da Vinci 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
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
This obstinate will to personal happiness is the cause of unrest and division in your soul. Give it up and work against… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
We must define flattery and praise; they are distinct. Trajan was encouraged to virtue by the panegyric Pliny; Tiberius became obstinate in… — Louis XVI of France Copy Share Image
Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as… — Michel de Montaigne 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
There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the… — William Hazlitt 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
They went down to Egypt and provided food when famine reigned; they came to the obstinate sea, and taught it wisdom with… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an… — Johannes Kepler 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
The two commonest mistakes in judgement ... are, the confounding of shyness with arrogance - a very common mistake indeed - and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
They also have at that critical point of death the opportunity to be converted to God through repentance. And if they are… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“When I find that stubbornness continually overrides common sense regardless of the logic of my argument, it seems that the only effective… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Even after the Truth has been realised, there remains that strong, obstinate impression that one is still an ego - the agent… — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The belief that man is an irresolute creature pulled this way and that by two forces of equal strength, alternately winning and… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
He walked on without resting. He had a terrible longing for some distraction, but he did not know what to do, what… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Obstinate are the trammels, but my heart aches when I try to break them. Freedom is all I want, but to hope… — Rabindranath Tagore 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
Philosophy arises from an unusually obstinate attempt to arrive at real knowledge. What passes for knowledge in ordinary life suffers from three… — Bertrand Russell 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
By that time it was already clear that the next prime minster was going to be Golda Meir, a woman whom I… — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy. — Ambrose Bierce 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
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To persevere In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
