Contrariwise Quotes
11 quotes by 10 authors
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Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
— Lewis Carroll
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We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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It can be shown that an incorporeal and reasonable being has life in itself independently of the body... then it is beyond a doubt bodies…
— Origen
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Man must not check reason by tradition, but contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.
— Leo Tolstoy
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Blindness to the aesthetic element in mathematics is widespread and can account for a feeling that mathematics is dry as dust, as exciting as a…
— Philip J. Davis
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Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I dislike a picture that is too suave or too skilfully done. But, contrariwise, I also dislike a picture that looks too inept or blundering.
— Robert Motherwell
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Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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The difference between you and her (whom I to you did once prefer) Is clear enough to settle: She like a diamond shone, but you…
— Robert Graves
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The sun may set and rise: But we contrariwise Sleep after our short light One everlasting night.
— Sir Walter Raleigh
Who Wrote These Contrariwise Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 11 Contrariwise Quotes as follows: