He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees. — Michel de Montaigne 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
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
OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake… — Rabindranath Tagore 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
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth… — Akhenaton Copy Share Image
Human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A cantankerous press, an obstinate press, a ubiquitous press must be suffered by those in authority in order to preserve the even… — Murray Gurfein Copy Share Image
The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but… — Allan Bloom 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 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
Every returning New Yorker asks the question: Is this still my city? I have a ready answer, cloaked in obstinate despair: It… — Gary Shteyngart 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
If it be true that men of strong imaginations are usually dogmatists--and I am inclined to think it is so--it ought to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
However strong, however imposing a ship may appear, it is not 'disgraced' because it flies before the tempest. A commander ought always… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
An island can be dreadful for someone from outside. Everything is complete, and everyone has his obstinate, sure and self-sufficient place. Within… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
The security of the Nation is not at the ramparts alone, Security also lies in the value of our free institutions. A… — Murray Gurfein Copy Share Image
Among other common lies, we have the silent lie - the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is of course, entirely possible that men (or anyone who is relatively privileged) are most defensive, most obstinate and unseeing when… — Faye J Crosby 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
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
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
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
Even if you are on the brink of damnation, even if you have one foot in hell, even if you have sold… — Louis de Montfort 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 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
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
