Best opposites & found Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I've found that if I tell somebody 'Eat this and don't do that,' it's not only not helpful, it's counterproductive because even more than being healthy, we want to feel free and in control, and as soon as somebody tells us to do something, there's a tendency to do just the opposite.”

Ifs Want Feels Found Healthy Opposites Tendencies Helpful Counterproductive

Author:Dean Ornish

“I've never found therapy to be a sign of weakness; I've found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength.”

Found Weakness Opposites Mirrors Being True Therapy Willingness Up To You

Author:Brooke Shields

“When you're working opposite Halle Berry, you're going to get a lot. So you have to give a lot. That said, what I've found striking in the past few days is that people are aware of a good chemistry that exists between us on screen. If that's so, it's due to the fact that she and I have a real liking for each other in real life and a real mutual respect.”

People Ifs Giving Said Real Facts Past Found Opposites Dues Screens Real Life Mutual Chemistry Berries Mutual Respect

Author:Benjamin Bratt

“Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the unsuitable, the obligatory into the optional (but in such a manner that this process produces no injury and is only imagined in jest), is a pleasure.”

Found Process Pleasure Produce Opposites Transformation Injury Nonsense Suitable Jest Optional

Book:Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III

Source: Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III

“With reason, then, the common opinion of mankind, little affected by the few dissentients who have contended for the opposite view, has found in the careful study of nature, and in the laws of nature, the foundations of the division of property, and the practice of all ages has consecrated the principle of private ownership, as being pre-eminently in conformity with human nature, and as conducing in the most unmistakable manner to the peace and tranquility of human existence.”

“For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate. But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power....When the revolutionary theory of government began to prevail, and Church and State found that they were educating for opposite ends and in a contradictory spirit, it became necessary to remove children entirely from the influence of religion.”

“We're convinced we need money to have friends and partners, but actually I've found the opposite to be true.”

Needs Found Opposites Convinced Partners Being True Need Money

Author:Mark Boyle

“A given circle cannot be so true that a truer one cannot be found; and the movement of a sphere at one moment is never precisely equal to its movement at another, nor does it ever describe two circles similar and equal, even if from appearances the opposite may seem true.”

Ifs May Doe Two Moments Seems Found Given Movement Equal Opposites Appearance Circles Spheres

Author:Nicholas of Cusa

“Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention; and the longer I stayed there, the more I perceived the great political consequences resulting from this new state of things. In France, I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom marching in opposite directions. But in America I found they were intimately united and that they reigned in common over the same country.”

Firsts Country States America Political Spirit Found Religious United Common Attention United States Consequence Aspect Opposites France Arrivals Great Political

Book:Democracy In America -- Vol. 1

Source: Democracy In America -- Vol. 1

“We're programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it diminishes us. I have found that it's done the opposite to me. Life is in perfect balance. It's just that our perception of it isn't.”

Believe Done Life Is Found Perfect Enemy Balance Perception Opposites Diminish Perfect Balance

Author:Queen Rania of Jordan

“I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.”

Has Beens Art School Past Form Found Grows Democracy Influence Prove Opposites Theology

Book:Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose

Source: Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose

“I found that if I offered to cook for a girl, my odds improved radically over simply asking a girl out. Through my efforts to attract the opposite sex, I found that not only did cooking work, but that it was actually fun.”

Ifs Girl Found Fun Sex Effort Opposites Asking Cooking Cooks Odds

Author:Alton Brown

“To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law - a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.”

Ends Law Suffering Found Natural Security Opposites Bases Seeking Minimum Maximum Perversion

Author:Walter M. Miller, Jr.

“...you found you were saying yes when you meant no, and “We’ve got to be together in this thing” when you meant the very opposite ... and then you were face to face, in total darkness, with the knowledge that you didn’t know who you were. And how could anyone else be blamed for that?”

Knows Together Faces Found Darkness Opposites Face To Face Saying Yes Found You

Author:Richard Yates

“I thought I knew what loneliness was before he found me, but I had no clue. You don't know what real loneliness is until you've known the opposite.”

Knows Real Found Known Loneliness Opposites Clue

Book:The 5th Wave

Source: The 5th Wave

“There are also two kinds of truths, those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible, and those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible. When a truth is necessary its reason can be found by analysis, resolving it into more simple ideas and truths until we reach those which are primitive.”

Kind Two Ideas Reason Facts Science Found Simple Impossible Truth Is Opposites Primaries Analysis Reasoning Simple Ideas

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“As I became aware that all things have unique spatial and temporal qualities which visually define and relate them, I began to perceive the things I was photographing not as objects but as events. Working to develop my skills of perceiving and symbolizing these event qualities, I discovered the principle of opposites. When, for example, I photographed the smooth, luminous body of a woman behind a dirty cobwebbed window, I found that the qualities of each event were enhanced and the universal forces which they manifested were more powerfully evoked.”

Source: Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning

“Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.”

Would Be Found Strange Opposites

Author:Olivier Martinez

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