Opposites Quotes

Opposites Quote of the day

Much success to you, even if you wish me the opposite.

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction

Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole

The opposite of poverty is not wealth. I don't believe that. I actually think, in too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.

Put light against light - you have nothing. Put dark against dark - you have nothing. It's the contrast of light and dark that each give the other one meaning.

The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.

I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.

The opposite of love? Vice. Temptation. The negative influences that we have. The bad energy that comes around us and makes us do certain things. To me, it's always been a war between the two.

Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.

I simply cannot accept that there are on every story two equal and logical sides to an argument.

Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

Normally the great men that we admire from a distance lose their magic when one knows them well. With Hitler the opposite is true.

You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.

Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity.

Steve is very quiet, even shy. I am very gregarious. So, opposites.

Other than He cannot be qualified by two (opposite) qualities at one time; yet With Him they do not create opposition. He is hidden in His manifestation, manifest in His concealing.

To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason - to believe something by faith - is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits the opposite of respect.

Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite.

Watch what everyone else does--do the opposite. The majority is always wrong.

Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life.

We are always seeking our opposite, whether we know it or not. When we discover what that is we can dissolve our arrogance.

The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.

The highest peace is the peace between opposites.

For me a chameleon is something that disguises itself to look as much like its environment as possible. I always thought I did exactly the opposite of that.

The point is to unify the opposites, both positive and negative, by discovering a ground which transcends and encompasses both.

Given any rule, however �fundamental� or �necessary� for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but to adopt its opposite.

The opposite of Christianity is not atheism, but idolatry.

It is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

When an economist says the evidence is "mixed," he or she means that theory says one thing and data says the opposite.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

The advantage of wisdom is that you can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult.

The opposite of bad is not good.The opposite of bad is love

We're intellectual opposites. Well, I'm intellectual and you're opposite.

A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it's exact opposite is also true.

If we can stay with the tension of opposites long enough —sustain it, be true to it—we can sometimes become vessels within which the divine opposites come together and give birth to a new reality.

I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite

Personally, I didn't think there was anything wrong with sadness. Just the opposite – hypocrisy made people happy and truth made them sad.

I've grown up watching Shah Rukh Khan and never really imagined that one day I will get to play the lead opposite him.

I've always been my own person. I don't do what people want me to do. Like, if you want me to do that, I'm going to do the complete opposite.

The opposite of creativity is cynicism

When I see everyone doing the same thing, I want to do the opposite.

When you follow your heart, you're never supposed to do things because of what you think people might say. You do it for the opposite reasons.

There are bound to be deniers. Whenever you set up a thesis there's bound to be somebody who comes the opposite way …like Holocaust deniers.

In the old days rank was not important - The complete opposite of today. You just trained

Dada Dada Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE.

Hell is the opposite of joy. It is unfulfillment. It is knowing Who and What You Are, and failing to experience that. It is being less.

Design is the application of intent - the opposite of happenstance, and an antidote to accident.

Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.