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Obstinate, headstrong girl! -- Jane Austen
Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus. -- Margaret Thatcher
resolute, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve. -- Ambrose Bierce
Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. -- William James
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. -- Aristotle
Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted. -- William Cobbett
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
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
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 desire for reconciliation. -- Jean de la Bruyere
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 others worthy of consideration. -- Allan Bloom
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 all things but his own ignorance. -- Akhenaton
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 stylistic 'family' in the world outside. -- Brian Ferneyhough
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 they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other. -- Barbra Streisand
Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated. -- Mary Shelley
I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool. -- Bertrand Russell
It's only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done. -- Rumer Godden
A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led. -- Alexander Cannon
I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them. -- Agatha Christie
The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people. -- Mary Roberts Rinehart
OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy. -- Ambrose Bierce
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
It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous. -- Michael Faraday
Even after the Truth has been realised, there remains that strong, obstinate impression that one is still an ego - the agent and experiencer. This has to be carefully removed by living in a state of constant identification with the supreme non-dual Self. Full Awakening is the eventual ceasing of all the mental impressions of being an ego. -- Adi Shankara
If it be true that men of strong imaginations are usually dogmatists--and I am inclined to think it is so--it ought to follow that men of weak imaginations are the reverse; in which case we should have some compensation for stupidity. But it unfortunately happens that no dogmatist is more obstinate or less open to conviction than a fool. -- Charles Caleb Colton
I've been called 'hardheaded,' 'obstinate,' 'unreasonable,' etc. -- Benigno Aquino III
Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated. -- Mary Shelley
I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool. -- Katharine Whitehorn
The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find. -- Francis Aungier
With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone. -- Buddha
It was always remarkable to me how ignorant the labels were of the listening habits of their own customers, and how obstinate they were in denying those habits and then trying to essentially alter those habits instead of retooling their business to adapt to them. -- Todd Rundgren
However strong, however imposing a ship may appear, it is not 'disgraced' because it flies before the tempest. A commander ought always to remember that a man's life is worth more than the mere satisfaction of his own pride. In any case, to be obstinate is blameable, and to be wilful is dangerous. -- Jules Verne
It will always be considered a praiseworthy undertaking to urge the most obstinate and incredulous to abide by the principles that impel men to live in society. There are, therefore, three distinct classes of vice and virtue: the religious, the natural, and the political. These three classes should never be in contradiction with one another. -- Cesare Beccaria
I am obstinate and I will not give in. -- Jane Goodall
Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot... -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The obstinate miner of the void exploits his fertile mine -- Jean Cocteau
An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them. -- Alexander Pope
Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm. -- Alexander H. Stephens
The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical. -- Blaise Pascal
He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees. -- Michel de Montaigne
The less taste a person has in dress, the more obstinate he always seems to be. -- Jerome K. Jerome
Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal. -- Samuel Johnson
I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate. -- Michel de Montaigne
You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you. -- Martial
Many are obstinate with regard to the pathway once they have set upon it, few with regard to the goal. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Obama acknowledges his overreach openly every time he argues that he intends to do the job of an obstinate Republican congress. -- David Harsanyi
In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men. -- Kenneth Clark
Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power..... -- Plato
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
I have become an obstinate heretic in the eyes of my colleagues. Momentary success carries more power of conviction than reflections upon principles. -- Albert Einstein
Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring through timidity. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Nothing is more dangerous in practice, than an obstinate, unbending adherence to a system, particularly in its application to the wants and errors of mankind. -- Jean-Baptiste Say
For the life of her, she couldn't understand how such an obstinate, boneheaded chauvinist could make her pulse race and her insides turn to jelly. -- Joanne Fluke
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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 busybody. -- Marcus Aurelius
She would simply wait on the bridge, calm and obstinate, until events, real events, not her own fantasies, roe to her challenge, and dispelled her insignificance. -- Ian Mcewan
Human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to offer the largest vegetable marrow. -- George Eliot
He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stone cutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
To resist the social pressure now put even on one's leisure time, requires a tougher upbringing and a more obstinate willfulness about going one's own way, than ever before. -- Robert Graves
Leading the Jewish people is not easy -- we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp wittedness and polemics to a very high level. -- Shimon Peres
We must define flattery and praise; they are distinct. Trajan was encouraged to virtue by the panegyric Pliny; Tiberius became obstinate in vice from the flattery of his senators. -- Louis XVI of France
I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was beginning to realise that I was very obstinate. -- John Buchan
Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen natures; for they struggle hard to be such. -- Charles Dickens
An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty. -- Samuel Butler
This obstinate will to personal happiness is the cause of unrest and division in your soul. Give it up and work against it: the rest will be given you without effort. -- Tito Colliander
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 is a different matter altogether though. I hate that. -- Mark Lawrence
The two commonest mistakes in judgement ... are, the confounding of shyness with arrogance - a very common mistake indeed - and the not understanding that an obstinate nature exists in a perpetual struggle with itself. -- Charles Dickens

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