Obstinate Quotes

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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
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
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
An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them. — Alexander Pope
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
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
Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted. — William Cobbett
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
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
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
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
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. — Aristotle
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
Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power..... — Plato
A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led. — Alexander Cannon
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
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
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
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
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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