Contrary Quotes

In sharp contrasts to traditional art, modern art does not hide the fact that it is something made and produced: on the contrary, it underscores the fact.

There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath... and even into the 70s.

RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual.

From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.

We strive to further the occurrence of whatever we imagine will lead to Joy, and to avert or destroy what we imagine is contrary to it, or will lead to Sadness.

On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they had engaged to enter into arbitration.

School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

Truth is for tailors and shoemakers. I, on the contrary, have always held that the Lord has a penchant for masquerades.

I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church.

The proper exegetical principle is this: Mosaic law is still to be enforced, by the church or the State or both, unless there is a specific injunction to the contrary in the New Testament.

We did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible.

Contrary to the received wisdom, global markets are not unregulated. They are regulated to produce inequality.

In the absence of evidence to the contrary, always assume you have the upper hand.

I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ.

In the common run of mankind, for one that is wise and good you find ten of a contrary character.

While the human gaze becomes more and more fixed, losing some of its natural speed and sensitivity, photographic shots, on the contrary, become even faster.

The doctrine of the double motion of the earth about its axis and about the sun is false, and entirely contrary to Holy Scripture.

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

Great novelists are philosopher novelists - that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.

But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man.

I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens.

I agree with God’s Word; I disagree with any condition, situation or circumstance contrary to that Word.

Socialism cannot function, because its economic reward structure is contrary to human nature.

An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.

You cannot just quote from history and above all you cannot take it out of context, in however humorous a fashion . On the contrary history has a natural continuity which must be respected

Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.

I'm a writer. I could not or would not ever run a business. I don't even have a secretary. And contrary to some of the stereotypes, entrepreneurs are not loners. I am.

I am overwhelmed by an irresistible temptation to do my climb by moonlight and unroped. This is contrary to all my rock climbing teaching & does not mean poor training, but only a strong-headedness.

I don't see many artists who are not trying to bring their work to the public - -to the contrary I see artists nearly desperate to get attention for their art and, failing that, often for themselves.

This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it led us to define precisely the conditions for its realization.

Things can never be as they were. It's astonishing how we comment on change, as if change is something remarkable. On the contrary, not to change is unnatural, against nature.

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.

From the very beginning I've said to women not to follow the fashion rules blindly, and to adapt clothes to suit who they are, and not the contrary.

Information...exhausts itself in the staging of meaning...[and leads] not at all to a surfeit of innovation but to the very contrary, to total entropy

The academic mind, as we know, is sometimes capable of assuming an aggressive attitude. The official mind, on the contrary, is and has to be, expert in the art of self-defence.

This world is not the sum total of God's resources -- on the contrary, it is only the 'dream,' the probation, the prelude of the true world, the true life.

Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.

I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules of propriety, or if instead the man exempt from this vice is rare.

Jesus didn't tell us not to store up treasures. On the contrary, he commanded us to. He simply said, "Stop storing them up in the wrong place, and start storing them up in the right place."

Enthusiasm is not contrary to reason; it is reason - on fire.

A heart given to God loses none of its natural tenderness; on the contrary, the more pure and divine it becomes, the more such tenderness increases.

Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.

Contrary to widespread belief, I do know something about science.

All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of men, that on the contrary they stimulate them.

Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason.

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

Contrary to popular belief, it's not the legs that go first; it's remembering the word for legs.