Quotes About Obstinate

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.

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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 cocksure, vague and self-contradictory. The first step towards philosophy consists in becoming aware of these defects, not in order to rest content with a lazy scepticism, but in order to substitute an amended kind of knowledge which shall be tentative, precise and self-consistent.

Unfortunately, human hearts seem remarkably resistant to wisdom.

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.

I never met a more obstinate son of a bitch than you, baby.

I, for one, shall speak about those obstinate Greeks, who are with us and against us, united in faith and divided in peace, though in truth their faith may stray from the straight path.

You're the pain in the ass. -Ian Fitzgerald

He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.

The idiot is bound by his pride," he says. "It always has to be his way.

con-tu-ma-cious (adjective). Obstinately resisting authority; stubbornly perverse.

recalcitrant

I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.

There's your law of precedents; there's your utility of traditions; there's the story of your obstinate survival of old beliefs never bottomed on the earth, and now not even hovering in the air! There's orthodoxy!

It is invariably those lacking in intellect,' Gothos expounded, 'who unceasingly rue their misfortune. The curse of the witless is to beat one's head against the obstinate wall of how things really are, rather than what

Time is an obstinate healer. It heals you against your will. And the younger you are, the faster you are cured, only to come out more immune.

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.

And in my spine, at the very core of me, I am a tiger. Passionate and daring, impetuous, longing to rebel. Unpredictable and quick-tempered. But also determined and as obstinate as a solid wall of shidan--stone.

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.

Love really did conquer all–even two headstrong people who were bound to breed even more obstinate children for the future. But that was all right by her. After all, the world needed heroes who could wield both swords and words with equal skill.

Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong.

I prefer an accommodation vice to an obstinate virtue.

In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.

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.