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Quotes About Opposite

The opposite of a correct statement is an incorrect statement, but the opposite of a great truth may be another great truth.
~ Bruce Rosenblum
Bernal believed discipline was essential for revolution. Wiley, of course, believed just the opposite.
~ Carl Hiaasen
Kozmos ''düzen içinde bir evren'' anlam?nda kullan?lan Yunanca bir sözcüktür ve bir bak?ma ''karmaÅŸa'' anlam?na gelen Kaos'un kar??t?d?r.
~ Carl Sagan
The complete reverse was so often the case that he had come to think of it as a kind of natural law.
~ Terry Pratchett
Devil spelled backward is Lived.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
I've had good results on clay during my junior years and I enjoy playing on clay to the opposite of what many media can say.
~ Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
The justification for early boarding is based on a massive but common misconception. Because physical hardship in childhood makes you physically tough, the founders of the system believed that emotional hardship must make you emotionally tough. It does the opposite.
~ George Monbiot
The term "productivity" is an economic measure referring to averages, not the well-being of individuals. Excess fertility and musculature are not the criteria that we use to judge the well-being of human beings, and they are not indices of avian well-being either. They more likely signify the opposite.
~ Karen Davis
They are each other's opposite, although, I suppose, not antithesis. That would be summer to winter, autumn to spring. Yet as they stand near each other, Winter, so icy and pale, Autumn so dusky and warm, it drives home to me how elemental the Fae are, the embodiment of the seasons themselves.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I have heard Brazilian children say that whatever passes through the arc of the rainbow becomes its opposite. But what is the opposite of a bird? Or for what matter, a human being? And what then, in the great rain forest, where, in its season, the rain never ceases and the rainbows are myriad?
~ Karen Tei Yamashita
I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It's a misfortune that it is usually the other way round.
~ Karl Kraus
if you have identified your feelings accurately and replaced them in the Script with appropriate opposite feelings, the stress you were experiencing can be unlocked, diffused and dissipated.
~ Karol K. Truman
The Chinese believe that whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite.
~ Fritjof Capra
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
~ G. K. Chesterton
maybe it seemed like Sam ran so far because I had run the opposite direction.
~ Gail Giles
If con is the opposite of pro, and progress is good, what is Congress?
~ Gallagher
The meaning of love cannot be taught or learned. Love will take care of Itself. Your job, as the Introduction says, is to learn how to remove, along with the Holy Spirit, the blocks to the awareness of the inheritance that you seemingly threw away. The opposite of God and His Kingdom is anything that is not God and His Kingdom, but what is all-encompassing — God — cannot have an opposite.
~ Gary R. Renard
There is a button on most calculators that computes the square root for you. It is usually denoted by the symbol "?" and one would normally write things like 3 = ?9. As you can see, the square root is the opposite of squaring, 42 = 16 and ?16 = 4.
~ Brian Cox
The irony of this is that while believers and non-believers are on opposite sides where religious ideas are concerned they may also find themselves on the same side in the struggle for freedom of belief.
~ Brian Whitaker
Scholars tell us that redundancy is correlated with retention. To minimize retention, a propagandist says one thing while showing the opposite. When the two differ, what we see tends to override what we hear.
~ Brooks Jackson
The opposite of poverty is not wealth. … In too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.
~ Bryan Stevenson
Una de las extravagantes conjeturas que, en las mentes supersticiosas, ya eran inseparables de la Ballena Blanca, era la idea sobrenatural de que Moby Dick era ubicua: que se la había encontrado en latitudes opuestas al mismo tiempo.
~ Herman Melville
there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast.
~ Herman Melville
kind of impartial reporting in the media that gives falsehood equal billing. The balanced view. This is the era of distortion, when everything can be instantly refuted. A numbness has entered the vocabulary. All information has become unstable, as though everything contains an equal opposite. If something is said to be safe, then it must also be implied unsafe. The lie appeals to your fears. The truth is too much trouble.
~ Hugo Hamilton