(483 quotes found)
“The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.”
Dr. Robert Anthony
“It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites /opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity /where energies flow smoothly in one direction /there will be much doing but no music.”
Eric Hoffer
“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”
Niels Bohr
“If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.”
Joseph Stalin
“Two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are obviously absurd, and profound truths, recognized by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth.”
“On a traffic light green means go and yellow means yield, but on a banana it's just the opposite. Green means hold on, yellow means go ahead, and red means where the hell did you get that banana at...”
Mitch Hedberg
“Paired opposites define your longings and those longings imprison you”
Frank Herbert
“I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.”
Coco Chanel
“Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.”
Hermann Hesse
“President Bush remained undeterred by the massive display of American opposition, even though much of it came from the hundreds of thousands of voters who supported him by voting for Nader.”
Jon Stewart
