Obstinate meaning

Adjective: obstinate

Pronunciation: (ob-sti-nut)

Obstinate meaning:

• Very difficult to deal with or not easily subdued or removed.
• Resistant to guidance or discipline. Always tending to do the opposite of what is normal or wanted.In other words, stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing.

obstinated, obstinates, obstinating

Quotations:  Edsger Dijkstra – If in physics there’s something you don’t understand, you can always hide behind the uncharted depths of nature. You can always blame God. You didn’t make it so complex yourself. But if your program doesn’t work, there is no one to hide behind. You cannot hide behind an obstinate nature. If it doesn’t work, you’ve messed up.

Lyndon Johnson – Negro poverty is not white poverty, many of its causes and many of its cures are the same. But there are differences – deep, corrosive,obstinate differences, radiating painful roots into the community and into the family and the nature of the individual. These differences are not racial differences. They are solely and simply the consequence of ancient brutality, past injustice and present prejudice. They are anguishing to observe. For the negro they are a constant reminder of oppression.

William Hazlitt  – There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.

Aristotle – Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

Oscar Wilde – My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

Sample sentences:

1. Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
2. Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.
3. An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him.
4. We are an obstinate bunch.
5. Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.
6. Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
7. You know I won’t turn over a new leaf I am so obstinate, but then I am no less obstinate in being your affectionate husband.
8. Negro poverty is not white poverty, Many of its causes and many of its cures are the same. But there are differences – deep, corrosive, obstinate differences, radiating painful roots into the community and into the family and the nature of the individual. These differences are not racial differences. They are solely and simply the consequence of ancient brutality, past injustice and present prejudice. They are anguishing to observe. For the negro they are a constant reminder of oppression.
9. There is nothing more likely to drive a person mad than an obstinate, constitutional preference of the truth to the agreeable.
10. Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
11. 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.
12. Fools and obstinate men make rich lawyers.
13. Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen natures; for they struggle hard to be such.
14. Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring though timidity.
15. Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.