Contrary Quotes

Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world's most beautiful cities.

Pay particular attention to your health, but too much coddling of the body will, on the contrary, also spoil the health.

"Comfort" is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being "comfortable".

Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency.

Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest.

The last 15 years, there has been no recorded warming. Contrary to all the theories that they are expounding, there should have been warming over the last 15 years. It hasn't happened.

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

Continuing to believe the same thing, even in the face of new evidence to the contrary, is the definition of insanity - except in politics where it's called leadership.

I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.

After the climb, you should feel no trace of tiredness; on the contrary, it is then that you should be really fresh. Then you will have found the correct measure of your abilities.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.

Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not still up there in one’s brain. It’s in outer space and it ain’t coming back.

Ownership is not a general feature of our society, determining its character. On the contrary, dependence on a precarious wage at the will of others is the general feature of our society.

I'm a real relationship person - contrary to public perception. I'm either in one or I'm not.

Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

What is most contrary to salvation is not sin but habit.

Anyone can achieve something important. Contrary to popular belief, the key is not hard work, but finding the right thing to achieve.

The Christian religion is so manifestly contrary to the facts, belief in it can only be held with the most delusional gerrymandering imaginable.

Faith is not contrary to reason.

Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle - and not just in the sense of money, by the way. The Beatles are untouchable. That’s just a joke.

Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity. Find it; eat it; it will go. It has been around for millennia. Now it is evanescent, like a season.

The inerrancy of Scripture means that scripture in the original manuscripts does not affirm anything that is contrary to fact.

Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream.

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.

Mistress Mary Quite Contrary

Love of others and love of ourselves are not alternatives. On the contrary, an attitude of love towards themselves will be found in all those who are capable of loving others.

The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice.

I'm not particularly fond of kissing strange men-contrary to popular belief.

Contrary to popular thinking, being worthy isn't something you earn, it's something you recognize.

The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary--how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive?

Silence is no weakness of language. It is, on the contrary, its strength. It is the weakness of words not to know this.

Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule.

If I am to wholly follow the Lord Jesus Christ, I must forsake everything that is contrary to Him.

In order to dance well, nothing is so important as the turning outwards of the thigh; and nothing is so natural to men as the contrary position.

This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

[O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened before.

The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.

It is ... impossible to keep one's excellence in a little glass casket, like a jewel, to take it out whenever wanted. On the contrary, it can only be conserved by continuous and good practice.

Research data on climate change do not show that human use of hydrocarbons is harmful. To the contrary, there is good evidence that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is environmentally helpful.

What they have implanted here, which is really a 'gringo' custom, is terrorism. They disguise children as witches and wizards, that is contrary to our culture.

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.

If you do not speak to your teens about the meaning of human sexuality and love, the world will fill the void of your silence with a very contrary message.

The cult of happiness turns into a huge concern which to my opinion is exactly contrary to what happiness should be: a paradise of enchantment.