Contrary Quotes

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Pain is a sensation produced by something contrary to the course of nature and this sensation is set up by one of two circumstances: either… — Avicenna
Living God's way means putting away your self-centeredness and committing yourself to follow God's Word in spite of any feelings to the contrary. — John C. Broger
Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days; rather the contrary is true. God created the… — Saint Augustine
The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by… — Paul Kurtz
And that is the trouble with all lovers: they want more love, because they don't understand that the real desire is not for more love,… — Rajneesh
Belief is reassuring. People who live in the world of belief feel safe. On the contrary, faith is forever placing us on the razor's edge. — Jacques Ellul
How can death become joyous? How can death become happiness? When Al-Hussein asked his nephew Al-Qassem, when he had not yet reached puberty: 'How do… — Hassan Nasrallah
Neglect not your time, nor use it haphazardly; on the contrary you should bring yourself to account. Structure your litanies and other practices during each… — Al-Ghazali
Perhaps because our culture and politics have gone so off course, with values so contrary to those of Jesus, more and more people intuitively recognize… — Tony Campolo
Our confidence in Christ does not make us lazy, negligent, or careless, but on the contrary it awakens us, urges us on, and makes us… — Huldrych Zwingli
Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium. It is your… — Joseph Brodsky
On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in… — Sidney Blumenthal
If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar… — Michel de Montaigne
I have learned to be less confident in the conclusions of human reason, and give more credit to the honesty of contrary opinions. — Thomas Jefferson
Contrary to what many of you may imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks - chief among them the unpleasant fact that… — Fran Lebowitz
Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of exchanges that build… — Sol Stein
The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in what is their… — Adam Smith
I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society. I reject the notion that… — Andrei Sakharov
No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true. — Samuel Johnson
Our "life education" has not necessarily taught us a satisfying way to live. We suffer from a vague sense that there must be something more,… — Shakti Gawain

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