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“To say that an idea is necessary is simply to affirm that we cannot conceive the contrary; and the fact that we cannot conceive the contrary of any belief may be a presumption, but is certainly no proof, of its truth.”

May Ideas Facts Truth Belief Truth Is Proof Contrary Presumption

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley

“Male initiation does not move toward machoism; on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die.”

Heart Doe Moving Dies Achieve Males Contrary Initiation

Author:Robert Bly

“If we want to read and to pray the prayers of the Bible and especially the Psalms, therefore, we must not ask first what they have to do with us, but what they have to do with Jesus Christ...It does not depend, therefore, on whether the Psalms express adequately that which we feel at a given moment in our heart. If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray.”

Ifs Want Feels Firsts Heart Doe Important Moments Asks Jesus Given Christ Prayer Depends Praying Jesus Christ Contrary Want U Psalms

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Contrary to many of the rumors and innuendo in circulation, I wholeheartedly believe that Obama views Israels security as absolute.”

Believe Views Security Absolutes Israel Contrary Rumor Circulation Wholeheartedly Innuendo

Author:Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

“To the young mind every thing is individual, stands by itself. By and by, it finds how to join two things and see in them one nature; then three, then three thousand; and so, tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct, it goes on tying things together, diminishing anomalies, discovering roots running under ground whereby contrary and remote things cohere and flower out from one stem.”

Thinking Mind Two Running Together Young Three Individual Flower Goes On Thousand Roots Instinct Contrary Two Things Thoughtful Discovering Stem Unifying Anomalies Young Minds

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found”

Found Authority Contrary No Respect

Book:The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell

Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell

“You will find it easier to accept contrary views, knowing that you are not defined by anything or anyone external to yourself.”

Views Accepting Knowing Easier Contrary Defined

Book:You'll See It When You Believe It: The Way to Your Personal Transformation

Source: You'll See It When You Believe It: The Way to Your Personal Transformation

“I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force.”

Lasts Force Differences Justice Class Regard Contrary Resorts Class Differences

Book:The World As I See It

Source: The World As I See It

“At root, evangelical anti-intellectualism is both a scandal and a sin. It is a scandal in the sense of being an offense and a stumbling block that needlessly hinders serious people from considering the Christian faith and coming to Christ. It is a sin because it is a refusal, contrary to Jesus' two great commandments, to love the Lord our God with our minds. Anti-intellectualism is quite simply a sin. Evangelicals must address it as such, beyond all excuses, evasions, or rationalizations of false piety.”

“"The myths," says Horace in his Ars Poetica, "have been invented by wise men to strengthen the laws and teach moral truths." While Horace endeavored to make clear the very spirit and essence of the ancient myths, Euhemerus pretended, on the contrary, that "myths were the legendary history of kings and heroes, transformed into gods by the admiration of the nations." It is the latter method which was inferentially followed by Christians when they agreed upon the acceptation of euhemerized patriarchs, and mistook them for men who had really lived.”

Men Has Beens Christian Law Spirit Nations Moral Teach Clear Wise Kings Hero Essence Method Ancient Myth Contrary Latter Admiration Transformed Legendary

Author:H. P. Blavatsky

“contrary to what many believed, my father was kind and tenderhearted, especially towards his family. His forbidding sternness seemed to melt into love, kindness, and easy familiarity when he was with us. Especially with me, his acknowledged successor to the throne, he would play lightheartedly. When we were alone together, he would sing me little songs; I don't remember his ever doing this in front of others, but when only the two of us were there, he would often sing to me.”

Kind Littles Two Play Together Remember Song Father Easy Kindness Fronts Contrary Thrones Familiarity Successors Two Of Us

Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

“You think Christianity is favorable to women? On the contrary. It is the Christian countries that have produced the prostitute and the most vile estimations of women in the world.”

Thinking World Country Christian Christianity Contrary Estimation

Book:Pilgrimage

Source: Pilgrimage

“Contrary to all we hear about women and their empty-nest problem, it may be fathers more often than mothers who are pained by thechildren's imminent or actual departure--fathers who want to hold back the clock, to keep the children in the home for just a little longer. Repeatedly women compare their own relief to their husband's distress”

Want May Children Littles Problem Home Mother Father Husband Empty Contrary Compare Clock Relief Distress Nests Departure Empty Nest

Book:Women of a certain age: the midlife search for self

Source: Women of a certain age: the midlife search for self

Trying Belief Water Theory Huge Claims Horse Contrary Monsters Ducks Mainstream Feathers Blast Dinosaurs Researchers Mutants Contrary To Popular Belief Loch Ness Monster

Author:Murphy J. Foster, Jr.

“It seems that God does not exist; because if one of two contraries be infinite, the other would be altogether destroyed. But the word "God" means that He is infinite goodness. If, therefore, God existed, there would be no evil discoverable; but there is evil in the world. Therefore God does not exist.”

Ifs World Mean Doe Two Seems Would Be Evil Goodness Infinite Contrary Destroyed God Exists

Book:Summa Theologica, (Complete)

Source: Summa Theologica, (Complete)

“No man is any the worse off because another acquires wealth by trade, or by the exercise of a profession; on the contrary, he cannot have acquired his wealth except by benefiting others to the extent of what they considered to be its value.”

Men Values Wealth Exercise Trade Profession Contrary Acquire Benefiting Others

Author:Thomas Huxley

“Mr. Darwin's hypothesis is not, so far as I am aware, inconsistent with any known biological fact; on the contrary, if admitted, the facts of Development, of Comparative Anatomy, of Geographical Distribution, and of Palaeontology, become connected together, and exhibit a meaning such as they never possessed before; and I, for one, am fully convinced that if not precisely true, that hypothesis is as near an approximation to the truth as, for example, the Copernican hypothesis was to the true theory of the planetary motions.”

Ifs Facts Together Known Example Theory Development Connected Convinced Contrary Possessed Hypothesis Distribution Exhibits Anatomy Inconsistent Approximation

Author:Thomas Huxley

“Business by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary, they reciprocally season each other; and I will venture to affirm, that no man enjoys either in perfection that does not join both.”

Mean Doe Enjoy Pleasure Perfection Seasons Contrary Venture

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“Our self-love is mortified, when we think our opinions, and even our tastes, customs, and dresses, either arraigned or condemned;as, on the contrary, it is tickled and flattered by approbation.”

Thinking Self Love Is Opinion Self Love Taste Dresses Contrary Customs Egotism Flattered

Book:Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son

Source: Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son

“Justice is immortal, eternal, and immutable, like God Himself; and the development of law is only then a progress when it is directed towards those principles which like Him, are eternal; and whenever prejudice or error succeeds in establishing in customary law any doctrine contrary to eternal justice.”

Law Justice Principles Progress Development Succeed Eternal Prejudice Errors Contrary Doctrine Immortal

Book:Select speeches, condensed and abridged by F.W. Newman

Source: Select speeches, condensed and abridged by F.W. Newman

“I was the British spy who had come out of the woodwork and told it how it really was, and anything I said to the contrary only enforced the myth. And since I was writing for a public hooked on Bond and desperate for the antidote, the myth stuck.”

Writing Said British Myth Contrary Stuck Desperate Spy Antidote Hooked

Author:John le Carre

“For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God.”

Men Should May Use Law Poet Friends Prove Contrary Ads

Book:Don Quixote

Source: Don Quixote

“Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude; and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place; and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.”

Mind Behinds Arms Solitude Ambition Glory Intention Crowds Legs Contrary Engaged Repose Inconsistent Arms And Legs

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“We are neither obstinately nor wilfully to oppose evils, nor truckle under them for want of courage, but that we are naturally to give way to them, according to their condition and our own, we ought to grant free passage to diseases; and I find they stay less with me who let them alone. And I have lost those which are reputed the most tenacious and obstinate of their own defervescence, without any help or art, and contrary to their rules. Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.”

Way Want Giving Littles Art Helping Evil Lost Conditions Ought Disease Affair Contrary Grants Permit Passages Obstinate Tenacious

Book:The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy

Source: The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy

“Superficial knowledge ... is hurtful to those who possess true genius; for it necessarily draws them away from their main object, wastes their industry over details and subjects foreign to their needs and natural talent, and lastly does not serve, as they flatter themselves, to prove the breadth of their mind. In all ages there have been men of very moderate intelligence who knew much, and so on the contrary, men of the highest intelligence who knew very little. Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.”

“There are two consequences in history; an immediate one, which is instantly recognized, and one in the distance, which is not at first perceived. These consequences often contradict each other; ... look to the end of an accomplished fact, and you will see that it has always produced the contrary of what was expected from it.”

Firsts Looks Two Ends Facts Consequence Distance Investing Expected Contrary Accomplished

Author:François-René de Chateaubriand

“In a world in which most investors appear interested in figuring out how to make money every second and chase the idea du jour, there's also something validating about the message that it's okay to do nothing and wait for opportunities to present themselves or to pay off. That's lonely and contrary a lot of the time, but reminding yourself that that's what it takes is quite helpful.”

World Ideas Opportunity Waiting Pay Messages Lonely Okay Investing Contrary Making Money Helpful Investors Reminding Every Second Reminding Yourself

Author:Seth Klarman

“Religion urges us to fight evil as contrary to the Divine Law. It urges us to combat abject misery, sin and disease because God is. In His name we can work, as we believe in co-operation with Him, since through Him goodness must ultimately prevail.”

Believe Law Religion Fighting Evil Names Women Sin Divine Goodness Disease Misery Contrary Operations Urges Combat Divine Law

Author:Lily Montagu

“Do your neighbour good by all means in your power, moral as well as physical - by kindness, by patience, by unflinching resistance against every outward evil - by the silent preaching of your own contrary life. But if the only good you can do him is by talking at him, or about him - nay, even to him, if it be in a self-satisfied, super-virtuous style - such as I earnestly hope the present writer is not doing - you had much better leave him alone.”

Ifs Wells Mean Self Evil Can Do Talking Moral Kindness Style Silent Contrary Satisfied Resistance Virtuous Preaching Neighbour Doing You

Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“Someone who expresses a view that is contrary to the view of the overwhelming majority should be allowed to stand undisturbed as a monument to our commitment to free speech.”

Should Views Speech Commitment Majority Contrary Overwhelming Free Speech Monument

Author:Al Gore

“To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam.”

Looks Loses Silence Silent Tongue Contrary Repeats Something New Ads Stopping Incessantly

Book:The Wisdom of Insecurity

Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity

“On the contrary, I'm a universal patriot, if you could understand me rightly: my country is the world.”

Ifs World Country Universal Contrary Patriotism Patriot Understand Me

Book:The Professor

Source: The Professor

“Whilst a man is persuaded that he has it in his power to contribute anything, be it ever so little, to his salvation, he remains in carnal self-confidence; he is not a self-despairer, and therefore is not duly humbled before God, he believes he may lend a helping hand in his salvation, but on the contrary, whoever is truly convinced that the whole work depends singly on the will of God, such a person renounces his own will and strength; he waits and prays for the operation of God, nor waits and prays in vain”

Men Believe May Littles Persons Self Whole Helping Hands Waiting Depends Praying Remains Salvation Convinced Self Confidence Contrary Gods Will Vain Operations Renounce Helping Hand

Author:Martin Luther

“At this point, an urgent question arises: [...] Is it our duty to seek to become a thorough and complete human being, one quite sufficient unto himself; or, on the contrary, to be only a part of a whole, the organ of an organism? Briefly, is the division of labor, at the same time that it is a law of nature, also a moral rule of human conduct; and, if it has this latter character, why and in what degree?”

“Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an enemy is often enough to make a man become so; the whole matter is over, there is no farther use of guarding against it. On the contrary, confidence leads us naturally to act kindly, we are affected by the good opinion which others entertain of us, and we are not easily induced to lose it.”

Men May Matter Enough Whole Use Shows Feelings Certain Loses Opinion Enemy Contrary Affected Destroying Distrust Good Feeling Guarding

Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

“The semanticists are exactly wrong in regarding language as an obstruction or series of pitfalls. Language, on the contrary, appears as a great storehouse of universal memory, or it may be said to serve as a net, not imprisoning us but supporting us and aiding us to get at a meaning beyond present meaning through the very fact that it embodies others' experiences.”

May Said Facts Language Memories Universal Series Contrary Pitfalls Obstruction

Book:Ideas Have Consequences

Source: Ideas Have Consequences

“Make a point never go clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie a contrary way, shall be unable to comprehend it. So weak a thing is reason in competition with inclination.”

Men Way Mind Reason Lying Clear Habit Perception Weak Competition Contrary Odds Bent Inclination

Author:George Berkeley

“That power of the Gods which orders for the good things which are not uniform, and which happen contrary to expectation, is commonly called Fortune, and it is for this reason that the Goddess is especially worshipped in public by cities; for every city consists of elements which are not uniform.”

Reason Happens Order Cities Elements Expectations Good Things Fortune Contrary Goddess Uniforms

Author:Sallust

“Despondency is not a state of humility; on the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride--nothing is worse; whether we stumble or whether we fall, we must only think of rising again and going on in our course.”

Thinking States Fall Courses Humility Pride Despair Contrary Rising Cowardly Vexation Despondency Rising Again

Author:Francois Fenelon

“There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things; it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we consider those things of little importance which have in fact such extensive consequences.”

Mind Littles Real Facts Views Consequence Importance Contrary Little Things Contempt Trifles Elevation

Author:Francois Fenelon

“Today's parents have little authority over those others with whom they share the task of raising their children. On the contrary,most parents deal with those others from a position of inferiority or helplessness. Teacher, doctors, social workers, or television producers possess more status than most parents.... As a result, the parent today isa maestro trying to conduct an orchestra of players who have never met and who play from a multitude of different scores, each in a notation the conductor cannot read.”

“Do we honestly believe that hopeless kids growing up under the harsh new rules will turn out to be chaste, studious, responsible adults? On the contrary, by limiting welfare, job training, education and nutritious food, won't we plant the seeds for another bumper crop of out-of-wedlock moms, deadbeat dads and worse?”

“Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we love can them. The saints on the contrary say in speaking of divine things that it is necessary to love them in order to know them, and that we only enter truth through charity.”

Knows Humans Order Divine Charity Saint Contrary

Author:Blaise Pascal

“The inherent tendency of the State is to concentrate, to narrow, and monopolize all social activities; the nature of revolution is, on the contrary, to grow, to broaden, and disseminate itself in ever-wider circles. In other words, the State is institutional and static; revolution is fluent, dynamic.”

States Social Grows Revolution Activity Contrary Circles Tendencies Inherent Static Fluent

Book:My Disillusionment in Russia

Source: My Disillusionment in Russia

“Resentment is, in every stage of the passion, painful, but it is not disagreeable, unless in excess; pity is always painful, yet always agreeable; vanity, on the contrary, is always pleasant, yet always disagreeable.”

Passion Stage Painful Contrary Pity Vanity Pleasant Excess Resentment Disagreeable

Author:Alec Douglas-Home

“There is no doubt, that man is not built to be a carnivorous animal. What a sweet, pleasing and innocent sight is the spectacle of a table served that way and what a difference to a make up of fuming animal meat, slaughtered and dead! Man in no way has the constitution of a carnivorous being. Hunt and voracity are unnatural to him. Man has neither the sharp pointed teeth or claws to slaughter his prey. On the contrary his hands are made to pick fruits, berries and vegetables and teeth appropriate to chew them.”

“The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.”

Men Giving Sometimes Passion Effects Birth Bravery Contrary Resolution Cowardice Boldness Avarice Levity

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I have never heard of a tradition among Jews that encourages us to support each others' differences. Quite the contrary. What I've always been taught is that Jews forever see each other as bitter enemies whose differences are irreconcilable.”

Differences Enemy Support Forever Heard Taught Tradition Jew Contrary Bitter

Book:Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches, and Diatribes

Source: Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches, and Diatribes

“The Analytical Engine, on the contrary, can either add, subtract, multiply or divide with equal facility; and performs each of these four operations in a direct manner, without the aid of any of the other three.”

Three Four Equal Direct Add Aids Contrary Operations Divides Engines Facility

Author:Ada Lovelace

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