Contrary Quotes

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Do you think that love has to be requited to be genuine? On the contrary, it thrives on indifference. — Violet Trefusis
I give myself this advice: Do not fear truth, let it be ever so contrary to inclination and feeling. Never give up the search after… — Elizabeth Fry
Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature. Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the contrary notwithstanding. — Percy Williams Bridgman
Newton was a genius, but not because of the superior computational power of his brain. Newton's genius was, on the contrary, his ability to simplify,… — Gerald Weinberg
Aristotle suggests that the rotating Earth was a generally accepted tenet of Pythagorism: "While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite… — Aristotle
The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest. — Henry David Thoreau
Advocates of psychiatric drugs often claim that the medications improve learning and the ability to benefit from psychotherapy, but the contrary is true. There are… — Peter Breggin
Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want.… — Waverley Root
LOVE is essentially self-communicative: those who do not have it catch it from those who have it.... No amount of rites, rituals, ceremonies, worship, meditation,… — Meher Baba
Chastity is the lily of virtues, and makes men almost equal to Angels. Everything is beautiful in accordance with its purity. Now the purity of… — Saint Francis de Sales
It is contrary to the principles of reason and justice that any should be compelled to contribute to the maintenance of a church with which… — George Mason
Beliefs: Those things we hold to be true despite evidence to the contrary. — Joseph O'Connor
In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first. This in no sense, however, implies that great men… — Frederick Winslow Taylor
IF YOUR OPPONENT strikes with fire, counter with water, becoming completely fluid and free-flowing. Water, by its nature, never collides with or breaks against anything.… — Morihei Ueshiba
The modern revisionists and reactionaries call us Stalinists, thinking that they insult us and, in fact, that is what they have in mind. But, on… — Enver Hoxha
Our object should not be to have scripture on our side but to be on the side of scripture; and however dear any sentiment may… — William Symington
I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction… — Julien Benda
Moreover, metaphor is typically viewed as characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought or action. For this reason, most people think… — George Lakoff
Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that it is not genteel comedy even; that… — Henry James, Sr.
Not only does the psyche exist, but it is existence itself. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can only be physical...We… — Carl Jung

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