Opposite Quotes

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If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business,… — Vernon Howard
The old saying of the two kinds of truth. To the one kind belongs statements so simple and clear that the opposite assertion obviously could… — Niels Bohr
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and… — John Arbuthnot
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man… — Archibald MacLeish
If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to… — Anton Chekhov
Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on what can be… — Dan Barker
Meditation means undoing what the society has done to you. It has reduced you to a machine; you have to de-automatise yourself, you have to… — Rajneesh
Faith does not imply a closed, but an open mind. Quite the opposite of blindness, faith appreciates the vast spiritual realities that materialists overlook by… — John Templeton
Mind is dual, it always divides things into polar opposites: the conqueror and the conquered, the observer and the observed, the object and the subject,… — Rajneesh
Objective art is just the opposite. The man has nothing to throw, he is utterly empty, absolutely clean. Out of this silence, out of this… — Rajneesh
I have assured His Majesty that our war is against evil, not against Islam. There are thousands of Muslims who proudly call themselves Americans, and… — George W. Bush
It is very important to understand that emotional intelligence is not the opposite of intelligence, it is not the triumph of heart over head -… — David Caruso
The opposite of poverty isn't wealth. The opposite of poverty is justice. — Bryan Stevenson
The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does. — Maurice Barres
There is something almost cruel about the Christian's being placed in a world which in every way wants to pressure him to do the opposite… — Soren Kierkegaard
Some clubs want to win so much they'll do anything to get it. Our approach has been just the opposite. We've tried to do things… — Don Shula
If catastrophic geology had at times pushed Nature to almost indecent extremes of haste, uniformitarian geology, on the other hand, had erred in the opposite… — William Johnson Sollas
You should show some respect for what other people see and feel, even though it be the exact opposite of what you see and feel. — Luigi Pirandello
For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it. — Malcolm Gladwell

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