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1717 Opposites quotes by 1276 unique authors

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
This principle of opposites is at the very root of Creation, which is divided between the rule of the King and the Queen; Night and… — Rabindranath Tagore
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
Once you know it, you move as a nonbeing. Nobody can make you angry, nobody can make you happy, unhappy, miserable. No! In that emptiness… — Rajneesh
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
Wisdom is not a matter of study, but a matter of living, and of sure action which rises above opposites. — Nilakanta Sri Ram
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
We are given two of most of our body parts, either opposites or similarities, but not the tongue; except for my wife's which is forked. — Unknown Author
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
There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality. — Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon
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
We moved leisurely towards Mount Foster, on the 22nd, and arrived opposite to it a little before sunset. — Charles Sturt
Anytime I was challenged and told I couldn't do something, I would absolutely have to prove the opposite. And I did. — Heather Mills
Anyone who has had actual contact with the making of the inventions that built the radio art knows that these inventions have been the product… — Edwin Howard Armstrong
Pugsley's First Law of Government: All government programs accomplish the opposite of what they are designed to achieve. — John Pugsley
It is perplexing to see the flexibility of the so-called 'exact sciences' which by cast-iron laws of logic and by the infallible help of mathematics… — Vasco Ronchi
The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker… — Henry Miller

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