obstinate quotes

   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.

- Allan Bloom
  The Closing of the American Mind, preface.

   She was stricken with most obstinate love to a young man.

- Nevil originally Nevil Shute Norway Shute
The Old Arcadia,'First Eclogues'.