Contrary Quotes

• I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.

  

  Socrates
  • Death
  • Man
  • Fear

• Contrary to popular wisdom, knowledge is not power-it's potential power. Knowledge is not mastery. Execution is mastery. Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • inspirational
  • Trump
  • Week

• Our wills and fates do so contrary run.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Running
  • Fate
  • Contrary

• Contrary to what we've been taught, genes do not determine physical and character traits on their own. Rather, they interact with the environment in a dynamic, ongoing process that produces and continually refines an individual

  

  David Shenk
  • Process
  • Individual
  • Determine

• That the arts are corrupt does not mean that Christians can abandon them. On the contrary, the corruption of the arts means that Christians dare not abandon them any longer.

  

  Gene Veith
  • Christian
  • Corruption
  • Abandon

• Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.

  

  William Blackstone
  • Time
  • Men
  • Memories

• Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.

  

  Gerald of Wales
  • Borders
  • Offensive
  • Delightful

• Our country is where ever we are well off.

  

  John Milton
  • Contrary
  • Well-off

• I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.

  

  Mikhail Bakunin
  • Humans
  • Diversity
  • Confirmation

• We’re such contrary creatures

  

  David Malouf
  • Creatures
  • Contrary
  • Such

• I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Laughter
  • Advantage
  • Contrary

• The JBU discipline process occurs in response to specific behaviors demonstrated repeatedly over time ... (and) that are contrary to the biblical values expressed in the community covenant.

  

  Andrea Phillips
  • Discipline
  • Process
  • Biblical

• Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule.

  

  Gene Sharp
  • Dependent
  • Societies
  • Totalitarian

• Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart.

  

  William Gurnall
  • Heart
  • Christianity
  • Heavenly

• When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

  

  Confucius
  • Character
  • Persons
  • Contrary

• It is not enough for us to know what is right and to believe it is good. We must be willing to stand up and be counted. We must be willing to act in accordance with what we believe under all circumstances. It is of little value for us to believe one way if we behave contrary to that belief in our private actions or in our public performance.

  

  Dean L. Larsen
  • Believe
  • Enough
  • Circumstances

• Contrary to what most people believe, trust is not some soft, illusive quality that you either have or you don't; rather, trust is a pragmatic, tangible, actionable asset that you can create.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Quality
  • Assets
  • Pragmatic

• What is contrary to women's nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Play
  • Contrary
  • Woman's Nature

• Understand now what lying is. Any species of designed deception. If the deception is not designed it is not lying. But if you design to make an impression contrary to the naked truth, you lie.

  

  Charles Grandison Finney
  • Design
  • Lying
  • Impression

• Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Faith
  • Senses
  • Contrary

• On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in the mass organizations of the working class.

  

  Ernest Mandel
  • Organization
  • Class
  • Conscious

• Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich.

  

  Mike Royko
  • Popular
  • Belief
  • Rich

• Contrary to popular opinion, 'Leave it to Beaver' was not a documentary.

  

  Stephanie Coontz
  • Opinion
  • Contrary
  • Documentary

• Contrary to popular myth, werewolves myth, werewolves are born, not made. No matter how many times they bite someone, that person will not turn, though they will probably bleed profusely and will definitely be annoyed.

  

  Molly Harper
  • Matter
  • Annoyed
  • Werewolf

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