Words matter. These are the best Obstinate Quotes from famous people such as Jacob Rees-Mogg, Brian Ferneyhough, Margaret Thatcher, Bertrand Russell, Robert Louis Stevenson, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
In the 2010s, it is not the price of bread that is falsely and unnecessarily inflated by obstinate politicians but that of energy. There are cheap sources of energy either available or possible, but there is a reluctance to use them.
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.
Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.
I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
The religion of the name of the seas will triumph against the sect of the son of Adaluncatif; The obstinate, lamented sect will be fearful of the two wounded by Aleph and Aleph.
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.
I do think that there is a profound reservoir of creativity and imagination in everyone I’ve ever met, and sometimes if someone is persistent and perversely obstinate enough to persevere, then they want to be helped. There is a way to help them.
The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.
I’ve been called ‘hardheaded,’ ‘obstinate,’ ‘unreasonable,’ etc.
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.
Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.
Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
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.
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.
I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.
Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.
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.
