(94 quotes found)
“Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
“And when we had launched from thence, we sailed under Cyprus, because the winds were contrary.”
Bible
“Contrary to the unsophisticated suggestions of melodrama, to rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as of the firm seat”
Jose Ortega y Gasset
“If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason”
Samuel Butler
“Contrary to general belief, humans imitate apes more than the reverse”
Frans de Waal
“Extreme complication is contrary to art.”
Claude Debussy
“And he saw them toiling in rowing; for the wind was contrary unto them: and about the fourth watch of the night he cometh unto them, walking upon the sea, and would have passed by them.”
“Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream.”
Josh Billings
“If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be in silencing mankind”
John Stuart Mill
“Contraries are cured by contraries.”
Cesare Pavese
