(458 quotes found)
“Opposition is true friendship.”
William Blake
“Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.”
Laurence Shames
“We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.”
William James
“The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.”
Andy Warhol
“Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, or opposites at all without opposites”
Plato
“The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.”
Ayn Rand
“A fanatic is always the fellow on the opposite side.”
Will Rogers
“I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.”
Coco Chanel
“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.”
Niels Bohr
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