The truth is paradoxical to the extent of being exactly contrary to the usual perception. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. — Alcibiades Copy Share Image
Our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics. — David Korten Copy Share Image
I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books. — Meg Rosoff 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
That which exists in nature is a something purely individual and particular. Art, on the contrary, is essentially destined to manifest the… — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
When you can completely love your ego unconditionally and accept it as part of how you express in this life, you'll no… — Anita Moorjani Copy Share Image
There's no sacrifice in eating well, there is no sacrifice in pleasure. To the contrary, the best-grown food is actually the tastiest. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle... and not just in the… — Bono Copy Share Image
Imagination, whatever may be said to the contrary, will always hold a place in history, as truth does in romance. Has not… — Arsene Houssaye Copy Share Image
Ive never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didnt choose tragedy. Tragedy… — Juliette Binoche Copy Share Image
Miracles may be, for anything we know to the contrary, phenomena of a higher order of God's laws, superior to, and, under… — Charles Babbage 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
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
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
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
In the ordinary, everyday understandings of the words involved, to say that someone survived death is to contradict yourself; while to assert… — Antony Flew 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
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
I was not especially enthusiastic about opera when I was young, and I thought I would never write one. I felt it… — Kaija Saariaho Copy Share Image
I say to you with all the fervor of my soul that God intended men to be free. Rebellion against tyranny is… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
It is not hateful to say that an immoral action is sinful. On the contrary, the most compassionate thing we can do… — Thomas J. Paprocki Copy Share Image
I have been judged vehemently suspect of heresy, that is, of having held and believed that the sun in the centre of… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I see that in the future, things that we have lost in the past will be recovered. There's a search for those… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
We always worry that we are copying someone else, that we don't have our own style. Don't worry. Writing is a communal… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath... and even into the 70s. — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
“When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.” — Confucius Copy Share Image
It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. — David Hume Copy Share Image
The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it. — Omar Bongo Copy Share Image
On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film. — Walter Salles Copy Share Image
There is no excuse for falling into delusion, which is so contrary to the Word of God. — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing. — David Douglass Copy Share Image
