Contrary Quotes

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Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at… — John B. Watson
There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in… — James Nayler
Besides it is an error to believe that rigour is the enemy of simplicity. On the contrary we find it confirmed by numerous examples that… — David Hilbert
Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerous coloured races. This is a perilous… — Oswald Spengler
As Our Predecessors have many times repeated, let no man think that he may for any reason whatsoever join the Masonic sect, if he values… — Pope Leo XIII
Homosexuality is not 'normal' On the contrary it is a challenge to the norm...Nature exists whether academics like it or not. And in nature, procreation… — Camille Paglia
The experience of Somalia shows that famine in the late 20th century is not a consequence of a shortage of food. On the contrary, famines… — Michel Chossudovsky
To the contrary, I believe the U.S. military has already done all that has been asked of them. Saddam Hussein is on trial. The threat… — Peter DeFazio
The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Faith never goes contrary to reason -- faith simply ignores reason and rises above it. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense.… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
If the Holy Spirit guides us, He will do it according to the Scriptures and never contrary to them. — George Muller
The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The… — Adolf Loos
I am strongly drawn to the simple life and am often oppressed by the feeling that I am engrossing an unnecessary amount of the labour… — Albert Einstein
You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at the foot of it (as… — Blaise Pascal
Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own. — Stephen King
Anarchism does not mean bloodshed; it does not mean robbery, arson, etc. These monstrosities are, on the contrary, the characteristic features of capitalism. Anarchism means… — August Spies
Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.' — Aristotle
Sometimes one must try anything, it is no disgrace. On the contrary, it is a sign of wisdom. — Philip K. Dick
Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not on account of the place, but of my… — Epictetus

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