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!

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.