His will cannot be neutral or 'free' to act contrary to his nature. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it. — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Matter is a term contrary to soul. But nonsoul is its contradictory. Whatever is not soul is nonsoul. — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
In the common run of mankind, for one that is wise and good you find ten of a contrary character. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, laws, under no form of government, are better supported, liberty… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Men and women who refuse to acknowledge God's existence do so, in the final analysis, because it is contrary to their manner… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
It is a human inclination to hope things will work out, despite evidence or doubt to the contrary. A successful manager must… — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle - and not just in… — Bono Copy Share Image
Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy; for if they judge by their own feeling,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Capital can seldom be made productive, without undergoing several changes both of form and of place, the risk of which is always… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
We ought not to believe those who today, adopting a philosophical air and with a tone of superiority, prophesy the decline of… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
Thus the labour of a manufacture adds, generally, to the value of the materials which he works upon, that of his own… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Karl Marx did not call for an opposition to the forces of history. On the contrary he accepted all of them, the… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Encourage dissent: Leaders should have associates who have contrary views, who are devil's advocates, "variance sensors" who can tell them the difference… — Warren G. Bennis 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
During the fifteen or twenty years in which I tried - it was not always easy with publishers, newspapers, etc. - to… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
But having considered everything which has been said, one could by this believe that the earth and not the heavens is so… — Nicole Oresme Copy Share Image
Do your neighbour good by all means in your power, moral as well as physical - by kindness, by patience, by unflinching… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
And when I hear it said that God is good and He will pardon us, and then see that men cease not… — Catherine of Genoa Copy Share Image
If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
There is no doubt, that man is not built to be a carnivorous animal. What a sweet, pleasing and innocent sight is… — John Ray Copy Share Image
Brothers, you came from our own people. You are killing your own brothers. Any human order to kill must be subordinate to… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
There is nothing illegal in keeping up a tomb; on the contrary, it is a very laudable thing to do. — Ryan Lindley Copy Share Image
No, I don’t wear contacts, and contrary to what some people have said, I do not have a glass eye. — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Contrary to the cliche', genuinely nice guys most often finish first or very near it. — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
What praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
