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Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot ...
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.
— Martin Heidegger
The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led.
— Alexander Cannon
Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm.
— Alexander H. Stephens
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
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
Resolute, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve.
— Ambrose Bierce
To yield is grievous, but the obstinate soulThat fights with Fate, is smitten grievously. — Sophocles
Grandma said that a skillet's good for three things: frying chicken, baking corn bread, and going upside an obstinate man's head.
— Lisa Shearin
I know that age, it's a particularly obstinate one, and a thousand bogies won't make you fear the future. A pity we can't change over.
— Daphne Du Maurier
Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.
— William Cobbett
He began to develop an obstinate patience.
— William Steig
It is better to enlighten men's minds than to teach them to be obstinate in their prejudices.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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
The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.
— Francis Aungier
Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
— Mary Shelley
Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.
— Samuel Johnson
In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.
— Kenneth Clark
To persevereIn obstinate condolement is a course
Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief. — William Shakespeare
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
I've been called 'hardheaded,' 'obstinate,' 'unreasonable,' etc.
— Benigno Aquino III
He is an honorable, obstinate, truthful, high-spirited, intensely prejudiced, perfectly unreasonable man.
— Charles Dickens
We can compare a life without a goal to an equestrian on an obstinate horse: much movement but little headway
— Sunday Adelaja
Obstinate, headstrong girl!
— Jane Austen
I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.
— Agatha Christie
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you.
— Marcus Valerius Martialis
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
An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
— Alexander Pope
Many are obstinate with regard to the pathway once they have set upon it, few with regard to the goal.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
It's only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done.
— Rumer Godden
I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.
— Katharine Whitehorn
Obama acknowledges his overreach openly every time he argues that he intends to do the job of an obstinate Republican congress.
— David Harsanyi
The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.
— Margaret Thatcher
I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.
— Michel De Montaigne
The obstinate miner of the void
exploits
his fertile mine — Jean Cocteau
He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
— Michel De Montaigne
Let it be virtuous to be obstinate.
— William Shakespeare
The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.
— Sabine Baring-Gould
When people misjudge, they inhale and exhale with obstinate, stagnant prejudice." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You
— Angelica Hopes
OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.
— Ambrose Bierce
Worldly life is not an impediment; your obstinacies and your ignorance of the self are only the impediments.
— Dada Bhagwan
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 obstinate practicality of old women pierces and fortifies these families like the steel rods buried in walls of powdery concrete.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Give me your hand," she says. "Which is your best finger?""They are all better at different things."
"Don't be obstinate. — Pierce Brown