Contrary Quotes

Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.

The gospel of grace is not the license to sin. On the contrary, it is the power for them to sin no more!

For there is no sex. There is but sex that is oppressed and sex that oppresses. It is oppression that creates sex and not the contrary.

It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.' Osho

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature,
understand them thoroughly.

No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!

To affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives.

The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.

It is not with low prices-but on the contrary-it is with improved quality we cannot only hold the market, but improve it.

Faith is not contrary to reason.

Mistress Mary Quite Contrary

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

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

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

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.

Etiquette requires the presumption of good until the contrary is proved.

Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.

In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.

Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand.

All concord's born of contraries.

The former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed.

Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.

This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused.

I use contrary-ism in every part of my life.

The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn’t obeyed.

The passions often engender their contraries.

It is contrary to reasoning to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing.

Who mentioned the Church? On the contrary, I have great respect for religion. My objection is to those who are against so many things and for so little.

We’re such contrary creatures

Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love.

Contrary to what people are saying, you can't go by what people say, but by their spirit.

I don't know what it is I'm doing. But it's not that. Despite all evidence to the contrary.

Nothing determines me from outside, not because nothing acts upon me, but, on the contrary, because I am from the start outside myself and open to the world.

Our wills and fates do so contrary run.

His will cannot be neutral or 'free' to act contrary to his nature.

It is contrary to the worship that is in contentedness.

Our beliefs are, however, often contrary to fact.

Avoid all affectation and singularity. What is according to nature is best, and what is contrary to it is always distasteful. Nothing is graceful that is not our own.

Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.

I don't go against the grain because I'm a contrary person.

Atheism in not simply beyond reason, it is contrary to reason.

All statutes to the contrary are revoked.

Commit no act that is contrary to love.

Contrary to my image, I do have a sense of humour.

All that is contrary to love and peace is of the Fiend and of his part.

There is nothing illegal in keeping up a tomb; on the contrary, it is a very laudable thing to do.

Without contraries there is no progression.