On The Contrary Quotes

73 On The Contrary quotes by 72 unique authors

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
On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in… — Ernest Mandel
I think my Wallander stories give a fairly good image of the world in the 1990s. I don't regret anything about that - on the… — Henning Mankell
My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change was at hand:… — David Brainerd
I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day. — Carla Bruni
In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they… — Benjamin Franklin
We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will… — Salvador Dali
What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth. — Benjamin Disraeli
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary,… — Marguerite Duras
A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly,… — William Falconer
I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one. — Mark Haddon
Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance… — Aldous Huxley
Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets. — Michael Korda
The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one. — D. H. Lawrence
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most… — W. Somerset Maugham
Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown… — Anne Rice
Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting… — Paul Tournier
With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he… — Simone Weil
True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and… — Ellen G. White
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of… — Walt Whitman
We foresee no limit to scientific advancement in the future, and in scientific truth there is nothing dead; science is always a living and growing… — George Edward Woodberry
It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to… — Paulo Freire
Under no circumstances should doodling be eradicated from a classroom or a boardroom or even the war room. On the contrary, doodling should be leveraged… — Sunni Brown

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