Contrary Quotes

1184 Contrary quotes by unique 872 authors

To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a… — Primo Levi
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. We call intuition here the sympathy by… — Henri Bergson
Extreme complication is contrary to art. — Claude Debussy
The paradox of knowledge is not confined to the small, atomic scale; on the contrary, it is as cogent on the scale of man, and… — Jacob Bronowski
The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and… — Edmond de Goncourt
Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not the aid of… — William Blackstone
Infield practice is more mystic ritual than preparation, encouraging the big-leaguer, no less than the duffer in the stands, to believe in spite of all… — Roger Angell
What is most contrary to salvation is not sin but habit. — Charles Peguy
Every ignoramus imagines that all that exists, exists with a view to his individual sake; it is as if there were nothing that exists except… — Maimonides
In the history of mankind there are recorded two great Inversions. The first, set forth by the Nazarene to the effect that love is a… — Louis Sullivan
I am very sorry to know and hear how unreverently that most precious jewel, the Word of God, is disputed, rhymed, sung and jangled in… — King Edward VIII
He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a… — Aneurin Bevan
On the contrary, if they are treated with justice and humanity, proper example and the advantages of education given them, the coming years will be… — Nelson A. Miles
I'm a real relationship person - contrary to public perception. I'm either in one or I'm not. — Sienna Miller
I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our… — Michael Polanyi
Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation. — Marilynne Robinson
I believe that our office has clearly been the leader in building coalitions, in getting other universities across the contrary to interact more effectively with… — Charles M. Vest
It is time to recognize a simple fact of life. Contrary to what some of my colleagues seem to believe, tax cuts do not pay… — George Voinovich
Those who, animal-like, live solely according to the senses... misuse God's creation in order to indulge the passions. They do not understand the principle of… — Maximus the Confessor
Those who seek the Lord should not look for Him outside themselves; on the contrary, they must seek Him within themselves through faith made manifest… — Maximus the Confessor

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