Contrary Quotes · Page 35

We are so anxious to achieve some particular end that we never pay attention to the psycho-physical means whereby that end is…

— Aldous Huxley

It seems that God does not exist; because if one of two contraries be infinite, the other would be altogether destroyed. But…

— Thomas Aquinas

I am strongly drawn to the simple life and am often oppressed by the feeling that I am engrossing an unnecessary amount…

— Albert Einstein

Truth, in its struggles for recognition, passes through four distinct stages. First, we say it is damnable, dangerous, disorderly, and will surely…

— Elbert Hubbard

Freedom of speech is central to most every other right that we hold dear in the United States and serves to strengthen…

— Sam Farr

Overcoming attachment does not mean becoming cold and indifferent. On the contrary, it means learning to have relaxed control over our mind…

— Kathleen McDonald

In the ranks of the movement [National Socialist movement], the most devout Protestant could sit beside the most devout Catholic, without coming…

— Adolf Hitler

“When a Forsyte was engaged, married, or born, the Forsytes were present; when a Forsyte died — but no Forsyte had as…

— John Galsworthy

I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man,…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There is one great fact, characteristic of this our nineteenth century, a fact which no party dares deny. On the one hand,…

— Karl Marx

Besides it is an error to believe that rigour is the enemy of simplicity. On the contrary we find it confirmed by…

— David Hilbert

Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we love can them. The saints…

— Blaise Pascal

Democracy is necessarily despotism, as it establishes an executive power contrary to the general will; all being able to decide against one…

— Immanuel Kant

I see and hear daily that you of the Clergy preach one against another, teach one contrary to another, inveigh one against…

— Henry VIII of England

On the contrary, there is a considerable body of evidence that these fossil traces, known as 'dino-fuzz', have nothing to do with…

— Alan Feduccia

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) new Summary for Policymakers is a political document that downplays assessments of uncertainty from the…

— Steven F. Hayward

Evolutionary theory has nothing to say, in general, as to whether cheating is more advantageous than cooperating. There are many circumstances in…

— Noam Chomsky

Probably the worst thing that has happened in America in my time is the decay of confidence in the courts. No one…

— H. L. Mencken

Machiavelli is the complete contrary of a machiavellian, since he describes the tricks of power and gives the whole show away. The…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite say that the earth lies at the center, the philosophers…

— Aristotle

Violence, contrary to popular belief, is not part of the anarchist philosophy. It has repeatedly been pointed out by anarchist thinkers that…

— Vernon Richards

One thing must be emphatically stated. The New Testament books did not become authoritative for the Church because they were formally included…

— F. F. Bruce

In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of…

— Leo Tolstoy

Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is…

— George Eliot

I don't think the whole of Iraq would be under al-Sadr, but I think he would be the predominant force on the…

— Patrick Cockburn

I don't paint women, I paint pictures. . . What I am after above all is expression. If in a portrait I…

— Henri Matisse

A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often…

— George Bernard Shaw

The countries the most famous and the most respected of antiquity are those which distinguished themselves by promoting and patronizing science, and…

— Thomas Paine

Contrary to what our brains are telling us, there's no mystical force that imbues a winner with a streak of luck, nor…

— Charles Seife

It's the notion that there is no perfection - that there is a broken world and we live with broken hearts and…

— Leonard Cohen

The power under the Constitution will always be in the people. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain…

— George Washington

There is not a single rule, however plausible, and however firmly grounded in epistemology, that is not violated at some time or…

— Paul Feyerabend

Contrary to Eastern Europe, where the border was more porous and you could exchange information more easily, Cuba is an island. Thus,…

— Luis Fortuno

“Sam, Sam, quite contrary, bought a budgie, wanted a canary. Sam, Sam, quite contrary, kissed Suzannah, meant to kiss Marry. Sam, Sam,…

— Chrissie Gittins

The next time someone asks for your opinion, and you know it’s contrary to that person’s viewpoint, take the risk of putting…

— Lois P Frankel

Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to…

— Criss Jami

I always thought I'd eventually learn how to draw really well, and despite constant evidence to the contrary, I just kept on…

— Mark Haddon

Contrary to popular belief, there is no such thing as an educated person. You are either learning or you are not. In…

— Bob Proctor

I believe that all women of working ages and physical capacity, regardless of income, should be expected to earn their livings either…

— Mary Barnett Gilson

All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk…

— Mark Twain