Stubborn Quotes

Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent. (Yevgeny Yevtushenko)
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable. View quote
Mark Twain
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence... View quote
John Adams
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. View quote
Anne Lamott
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift. View quote
William Wordsworth
What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will have more in common with the meticulous, calculated correctness of Himmler than with the hysterical fanaticism of Hitler, will more resemble the stubborn dullness of Molotov than the sensual vindictive cruelty of Stalin. View quote
Hannah Arendt
and a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world. View quote
Mikhail Bulgakov
The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never. View quote
Immanuel Kant
Facts are stubborn things. View quote
Ronald Reagan
You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that. (Guillermo Cabrera Infante)
Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights. View quote
Elihu Root
Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it. View quote
Laura Hillenbrand
I'm a very, very stubborn man. View quote
Dave Van Ronk
I always believed in God and Christ, but I was in rebellion - trying to make my relationship with God fit into my life instead of making my life fit in with him. I was stubborn. View quote
Scott Stapp
But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay, I'm junk but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A. View quote
Leonard Cohen
Men! Too blind to see what a stone could see, and too stubborn to be trusted to think for themselves. View quote
Robert Jordan
When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on. View quote
Boris Spassky
Somewhere in the child, somewhere in the adult, there is a hard, irreducible, stubborn core of biological urgency, and biological necessity, and biological reason that culture cannot reach and that reserves the right, which sooner or later it will exercise, to judge the culture and resist and revise it. View quote
Lionel Trilling
Never lose hope, be persistent and stubborn and never give up. There are many instances in history where apparent losers suddenly turn out to be winners unexpectedly, so you should never conclude all hope is lost. View quote
Theodore Kaczynski
Chamberlain's stubborn, fanatical insistence on giving Hitler what he wanted, his trips to Berchtesgaden and Godesberg and finally the fateful journey to Munich rescued Hitler from his limb and strengthened his position in Europe, in Germany, in the Army, beyond anything that could have been imagined a few weeks before. It also added immeasurably to the power of the Third Reich vis-à-vis the Western democracies and the Soviet Union. (William L. Shirer)
I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity. View quote
Bob Dylan
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
People you don't like are pigheaded. Your friends are stubborn, or hold to their purpose. View quote
Harry Turtledove
And if the man who once upon a time had been a boy who promised he'd never fall in love with another girl as long as he lived kept his promise, it wasn't because he was stubborn or even loyal. He couldn't help it. View quote
Nicole Krauss