Obstinate Quotes

77 Obstinate quotes by 70 unique authors

Every day that we allow ourselves to take things for granted, every day that we allow some little physical infirmity or worldly worry to come… — John Cowper Powys
I like mountains, always have done. Big obstinate bits of rock sticking up where they're not wanted and getting in folk's way. Great. Climbing them… — Mark Lawrence
I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool. — Bertrand Russell
Obama acknowledges his overreach openly every time he argues that he intends to do the job of an obstinate Republican congress. — David Harsanyi
OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy. — Ambrose Bierce
Philosophy arises from an unusually obstinate attempt to arrive at real knowledge. What passes for knowledge in ordinary life suffers from three defects: it is… — Bertrand Russell
If in physics there's something you don't understand, you can always hide behind the uncharted depths of nature. You can always blame God. You didn't… — Edsger Dijkstra
The tyranny of mankind; it was like the obstinate drip of water falling on a stone and hollowing it little by little; and this drip… — HalldÃ³r Laxness
Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a… — Marcus Aurelius
Trench says a wild man is a willed man. Well, then, a man of will who does what he wills or wishes, a man of… — Henry David Thoreau
Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand dimensions and delusions… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees. — Michel de Montaigne
I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate. — Michel de Montaigne
Innovations, free thinking is blowing like a storm; those that stand in front of it, ignorant scholars like you, false scientists, perverse conservatives, obstinate goats,… — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass? — Michel de Montaigne
resolute, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve. — Ambrose Bierce
The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor. — Leonardo da Vinci
They also have at that critical point of death the opportunity to be converted to God through repentance. And if they are so obstinate that… — Thomas Aquinas
Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot... — Napoleon Bonaparte
Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. — William James
I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy. — Bertrand Russell
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. — Robert Louis Stevenson
What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet… — Barbra Streisand
Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus. — Margaret Thatcher
Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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