Contrary Quotes

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Notice what happens when you doubt, suppress, or act contrary to your feelings. You will observe decreased energy, powerless or helpless feelings, and physical or… — Shakti Gawain
This is a moral universe, which means that despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no way that evil… — Desmond Tutu
It is not a gain that guilt should be wholly forgotten. On the contrary, it is loss and perdition. But it is a gain to… — Soren Kierkegaard
Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would probably like to… — Arthur Helps
Commit no act that is contrary to love. — Leo Tolstoy
Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom… — Mahatma Gandhi
How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and… — Benjamin Disraeli
Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments… — Marcus Aurelius
Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good. For that which happens… — Marcus Aurelius
Such do not always understand the authors whose names adorn their barren pages, and which are taken, too, from the third or the thirtieth hand.… — Isaac D'Israeli
Bayle, when writing on "Comets," discovered this; for having collected many things applicable to his work, as they stood quoted in some modern writers, when… — Isaac D'Israeli
If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the assistance of vice,… — Michel de Montaigne
Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying. — Marcel Proust
Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous. — Richard Dawkins
One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries. — James Fallows
It is wrong to follow the advice of an adversary; nevertheless it is right to hear it, that you may do the contrary; and this… — Saadi
Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks… — Stephen Jay Gould
Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich. — Mike Royko
My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am… — Anne Stevenson

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