One must conclude that, contrary to the established and current wisdom, a scenario describing the genesis of life on earth by chance… — Hubert Yockey Copy Share Image
Ending the slave trade was contrary to British economic interests. For all its limitations and hypocrisies - British slavery itself, of course,… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Contrary to the utopian rhetoric of social media enthusiasts, the Internet often makes the jump from deliberation to participation even more difficult,… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Contrary to the royal and uptight image of polo, I want to bring it to a younger generation. This is a great… — Randeep Hooda Copy Share Image
The truth is paradoxical to the extent of being exactly contrary to the usual perception. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
I claim that relativity and the rest of modern physics is not complicated. It can be explained very simply. It is only… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
In forgiving, people are not being asked to forget. On the contrary, it is important to remember, so that we should not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We live in a time of terror, and contrary to what we see on television and allow ourselves to believe, the real… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
Where we find echoes, we generally find emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary with the echoes of the heart. — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
Your good mother tells me you are feeling very badly in your new situation. Allow me to assure you it is a… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
When we live habitually with the wicked, we become necessarily either their victim or their disciple; when we associate, on the contrary,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
God has granted me today a very particular fondness for requesting of Him that same virtue of ever choosing the worst and… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
So that the life of a writer, whatever he might fancy to the contrary, was not so much a state of composition,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
On the contrary, I'm a universal patriot, if you could understand me rightly: my country is the world. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Contrary to general belief, humans imitate apes more than the reverse. The sight of monkeys or apes induces an irresistible urge in… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Even if somebody in your family is successful, it doesn't change anything. On the contrary, I suppose people expect more of you… — Martin Villeneuve Copy Share Image
There's two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the… — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
“It is contrary to the usual practice of professional men to give their opinions upon each other's work unless regularly called upon… — John Smeaton Copy Share Image
For no People will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can they easily be subdued, where Knowledge is diffusd and Virtue preservd .… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
To grant woman an equality with man in the affairs of life is contrary to every tradition, every precedent, every inheritance, every… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
The learning we received only tended to obscure our vision. From the day we went to school we learned nothing; on the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war. The wars of our age are not at variance with popular economic doctrines;… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
