Opposites Quotes

1717 Opposites quotes by 1276 unique authors

The world is full of paradoxes and life is full of opposites. The art is to embrace the opposites, accommodate the paradoxes and live with… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Switchfoot is a surfing term… To switch your feet means to take a new stance facing the opposite direction. It's about change and movement, a… — Jon Foreman
Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a… — Thomas Paine
Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite… — Karl Marx
If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born in Arkansas and… — Richard Dawkins
Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age — Aaron Sorkin
I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer. — Elie Wiesel
In meditating, meditate on your own divinity. The goal of life is to be a vehicle for something higher. Keep your eyes up there between… — Joseph Campbell
The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Physical life is characterized by defensiveness, whereas spiritual life is just the opposite. — Eben Alexander
The opposite of addiction is human connection. And I think that has massive implications for the war on drugs. The treatment of drug addicts almost… — Johann Hari
Allure is a word very few people use nowadays, but it's something that exists. Allure holds you, doesn't it? Whether it's a gaze or a… — Diana Vreeland
Im unfinished. Im unfixed. And the reality is thats where God meets me is in the mess of my life, in the unfixedness, in the… — Mike Yaconelli
To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason - to believe something by faith - is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits… — A.C. Grayling
Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter,… — William Shenstone
People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance… — Ann Druyan
I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We… — Chris Marker
The opposite of consumption isn't thrift. It's generosity. — Raj Patel
Just as experience dictates to the ballet teacher the length of time necessary to train his students, so the horse, too, needs time to mature… — Alois Podhajsky
The alternative to forgiveness, but by no means its opposite, is punishment, and both have in common that they attempt to put an end to… — Hannah
Life found itself alive and somehow knew its opposite was death. We are ever being born, or dying, and the thrill of choosing is ours. Only once,… — Calvin Miller
The opposite of interpersonal trust is not mistrust. It is despair. This is because we have given up on believing that trustworthiness and fulfillment are… — David Richo
Experience is the opposite of education. — Ashly Lorenzana
Opposites attract - and then can't stand each other. — Kenneth Kaye
Books can be passed around. They can be shared. A lot of people like seeing them in their houses. They are memories. People who don't… — Daniel Goldin

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