Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.
Obstinate, headstrong girl!
Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
Many are obstinate with regard to the pathway once they have set upon it, few with regard to the goal.
You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you.
Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.
I am obstinate and I will not give in.
resolute, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve.
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 hope and of the future tense, for not only the obstinate is willed, but far more the constant and persevering. The obstinate man, properly speaking, is one who will not. The perseverance of the saints is positive willedness, not a mere passive willingness. The fates are wild, for they will; and the Almighty is wild above all, as fate is.
Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.
Obama acknowledges his overreach openly every time he argues that he intends to do the job of an obstinate Republican congress.
He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.
I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that obstinate and perverse self-will, unaided by which the other three would be comparatively powerless.
Every returning New Yorker asks the question: Is this still my city? I have a ready answer, cloaked in obstinate despair: It is. And if it's not, I will love it all the more. I will love it to the point where it becomes mine again.
The sun had, in the meanwhile, sunk behind the Ettersberg. We felt in the wood the chill of the evening, and drove all the quicker to Wiemar, and to Goethe's house. Goethe urged me to go in with him for a while, and I did so. He was in an extremely engaging mood. He talked a great deal about his theory of colors, and of his obstinate opponents; remarking that he was sure that he had done something in this science.
An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool.
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.
A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led.
