But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I keep working because I am quite sure that no particle of goodness or truth is ever really lost, however appearances may… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
If then it be possible that one contrary should exist, or be called into existence, the other contrary will also appear to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Kids instinctively know - although they will argue to the contrary - that they really are not mature enough to make good… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
In the Bible poverty is a scandalous condition inimical to human dignity and therefore contrary to the will of God. — Gustavo Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
Love of others and love of ourselves are not alternatives. On the contrary, an attitude of love towards themselves will be found… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
In the beginning, Adam — not Eve— was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow. Contrary to conventional… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
An unchurched christian is a grotesque anomaly. The New Testament knows nothing of such a person. For the church lies at the… — John Stott Copy Share Image
These abnormal aspects included the shapes of UFOs and their behavior. Most of the UFOs seen in the daytime were said to… — Don Berliner Copy Share Image
It is contrary to the principles of reason and justice that any should be compelled to contribute to the maintenance of a… — George Mason Copy Share Image
It is not the multitude of hard duties, it is not the constraint and contention that advance us in our Christian course.… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
a really good play is ambiguous - which is exactly why it endures. Every succeeding generation develops theories about it. The play's… — Glenda Jackson Copy Share Image
No man is any the worse off because another acquires wealth by trade, or by the exercise of a profession; on the… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
In a world in which most investors appear interested in figuring out how to make money every second and chase the idea… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Bayle, when writing on "Comets," discovered this; for having collected many things applicable to his work, as they stood quoted in some… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
I would like to say is that to be truly American and represent American ideals you need to consider yourself a citizen… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In the Christian sense, love is not primarily an emotion but an act of the will. When Jesus tells us to love… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
What struck me most in England was the perception that only those works which have a practical tendency awake attention and command… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Most observers of the French Revolution, especially the clever and noble ones, have explained it as a life-threatening and contagious illness. They… — Novalis Copy Share Image
Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the… — Julius Rosenwald Copy Share Image
Easter says to us that despite everything to the contrary, his will for us will prevail, love will prevail over hate, justice… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
Any color is more distinctly seen when opposed to its contrary: thus, black on white, blear near yellow, green near red, and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I submit, on the other hand, most respectfully, that the Constitution not merely does not affirm that principle, but, on the contrary,… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
It's been a hard lesson for me , but contrary quite frankly to what is a common practice in politics, I can… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
Art is harmony. Harmony is the analogy of contrary and of similar elements of tone, of color and of line, conditioned by… — Georges Seurat Copy Share Image
Here's something that's contrary to popular belief: I actually don't like thinking. I think people think I like to think a lot.… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy.… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
I'm saying we need to be aware of it, and we need to be able to distinguish when political developments are occurring… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
