Obstinate Quotes
77 quotes by 72 authors
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The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows…
— Allan Bloom
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The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Even after the Truth has been realised, there remains that strong, obstinate impression that one is still an ego - the agent and experiencer. This…
— Adi Shankara
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
— Alexander Pope
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A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until…
— Johannes Kepler
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Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its…
— Brian Ferneyhough
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Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.
— William Cobbett
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I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that obstinate and perverse…
— Augustus William Hare
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The sun had, in the meanwhile, sunk behind the Ettersberg. We felt in the wood the chill of the evening, and drove all the quicker…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right…
— William Hazlitt
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Real success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work. Real sacrifice. Real disappointment. Real failure. And it requires the…
— Aisha Tyler
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Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.
— Aristotle
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True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth…
— Akhenaton
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Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.....
— Plato
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A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led.
— Alexander Cannon
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
— Gabriel Marcel
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Discipline is, in a manner, nothing else but the art of inspiring the soldiers with greater fear of their officers than of the enemy. This…
— Claude Adrien Helvetius
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The belief that man is an irresolute creature pulled this way and that by two forces of equal strength, alternately winning and losing the battle…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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Even if you are on the brink of damnation, even if you have one foot in hell, even if you have sold your soul to…
— Louis de Montfort
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You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you.
— Martial
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