Contrary Quotes

• La ve rite , comme la lumie' re, aveugle. Le mensonge, au contraire, est un beau cre puscule qui met chaque objet en valeur. Truth, like light, blinds. A lie, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight which shows the value of each object.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Value
  • Twilight
  • Contrary

• I think we will soon be able to prove the contrary.

  

  Rafik Hariri
  • Prove
  • Contrary

• My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • People
  • Company
  • Solitude

• Overcoming attachment does not mean becoming cold and indifferent. On the contrary, it means learning to have relaxed control over our mind through understanding the real causes of happiness and fulfillment, and this enables us to enjoy life more and suffer less.

  

  Kathleen McDonald
  • Understanding
  • Happiness
  • Suffer

• I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Faith
  • Ignorance
  • Facts

• I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Life
  • Family
  • Feminist

• Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.

  

  Petrarch
  • Sentiments
  • Contrary
  • Inclination

• Nothing is impossible to us, except of course, that which is contrary to the laws of nature and the Universe.

  

  Emile Coue
  • Nature
  • Law
  • Universe

• Contrary to popular belief, it's not the legs that go first; it's remembering the word for legs.

  

  Larry Gelbart
  • Popular
  • Belief
  • Contrary

• After my engagement with Muslim friends, I pray more than I used to pray. My prayer life has been enriched by my encounter with some Muslims, encouraged by their devotion and also enriched by the ways in which they pray. Have I compromised in this way at all? No, to the contrary, I've gone deeper in my faith and I think my love for God has been deepened and made more intelligent in a sense, more rich by that very encounter.

  

  Miroslav Volf
  • Thinking
  • Prayer
  • Devotion

• The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • Reason
  • Going On

• But for those that are equal to have an unequal share and those that are alike an unlike share is contrary to nature, and nothing contrary to nature is noble.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Share
  • Noble

• Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles.

  

  Aristotle
  • Harmony
  • Principles
  • Composition

• Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Nature
  • Contrary
  • Occurs

• For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Friends
  • Prove
  • Law Of God

• They who on meare curiositie (where no urgent necessitie requireth) try whether their children may not as birds be nourished without sucking, offend contrary to this dutie of breast feeding and reflect that meanes which God hath ordained as best; and so oppose their shallow wits to his unsearchable wisdom.

  

  William Gouge
  • Children
  • Breasts
  • Breastfeeding

• When the contrary magnetic poles were on the same side, there was an effect produced on the polarized ray, and thus magnetic force and light were proved to have relation to each other.

  

  Michael Faraday
  • Contrary
  • Poles
  • Magnetic

• Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety.

  

  Confucius
  • Movement
  • Contrary
  • Propriety

• Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Social

• If then it be possible that one contrary should exist, or be called into existence, the other contrary will also appear to be possible.

  

  Aristotle
  • Possible
  • Exist
  • Contrary

• Contraries are cured by contraries.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Behavior
  • Manners
  • Behaviour

• To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being, an askesis without sequel, an inability to enjoy the present without imagining it as absent, a never-ending flight from possession.

  

  Denis de Rougemont
  • Love
  • Passion
  • Possession

• There is an assumption if you are not religious, you have fallen, or you are further from God, or you are not doing the right thing. The judgment on me, with regard to my changes, is that he must be out all night partying or banging prostitutes and doing blow. This whole thing for me was absolutely the contrary. It was actually that God started to become very real to me, inside.

  

  Matisyahu
  • Party
  • Religious
  • Judgment

• Yes has been sleeping in this kind of awful mode that I think is slightly disrespectful to our beautiful fans. It's all ... political is not the right word, but it's all contrary to different people's opinions of what's right and what's wrong. I think that's really a shame.

  

  Steve Howe Yes
  • Political
  • Fans
  • Word

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