1.
Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
Galileo Galilei
2.
Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.
Friedrich Nietzsche
3.
The gospel of grace is not the license to sin. On the contrary, it is the power for them to sin no more!
Joseph Prince
4.
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.
Monique Wittig
5.
It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.' Osho
Rajneesh
6.
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature,
understand them thoroughly.
Salvador Dali
7.
No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!
Thomas A. Edison
8.
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.
Gilles Deleuze
9.
The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.
Jean de la Bruyere
10.
It is not with low prices-but on the contrary-it is with improved quality we cannot only hold the market, but improve it.
Hans Wilsdorf
13.
We did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible.
Georges Bataille
14.
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.
Blaise Pascal
15.
Contrary to widespread belief, I do know something about science.
Nick Kroll
16.
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.
Shashi Deshpande
17.
Etiquette requires the presumption of good until the contrary is proved.
Emily Post
18.
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.
Nikolai Gogol
19.
In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.
Jane Smiley
20.
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.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
21.
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.
Elie Wiesel
22.
I use contrary-ism in every part of my life.
Tibor Kalman
23.
Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand.
Mahatma Gandhi
25.
The former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed.
Paulo Freire
26.
Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.
Donna Tartt
28.
It is contrary to reasoning to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing.
Rene Descartes
29.
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.
Louis L'Amour
31.
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.
Thomas Aquinas
32.
Contrary to what people are saying, you can't go by what people say, but by their spirit.
Stevie Wonder
33.
I don't know what it is I'm doing. But it's not that. Despite all evidence to the contrary.
Edward Gorey
34.
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.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
36.
His will cannot be neutral or 'free' to act contrary to his nature.
Charles Spurgeon
37.
It is contrary to the worship that is in contentedness.
Jeremiah
39.
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.
Jeremy Collier
40.
Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.
Rita Mae Brown
41.
I don't go against the grain because I'm a contrary person.
Kevin Costner
42.
Atheism in not simply beyond reason, it is contrary to reason.
Dave Hunt
44.
Commit no act that is contrary to love.
Leo Tolstoy
45.
Contrary to my image, I do have a sense of humour.
Andy Murray
46.
All that is contrary to love and peace is of the Fiend and of his part.
Julian of Norwich
47.
There is nothing illegal in keeping up a tomb; on the contrary, it is a very laudable thing to do.
Ryan Lindley