Opposite Quotes

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)
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. View quote
Coco Chanel
Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal. View quote
Françoise Sagan
Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember. View quote
Oliver Herford
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it. View quote
Haruki Murakami
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
We're actors - we're the opposite of people! View quote
Tom Stoppard
The opposite of war isn't peace... It's creation! View quote
Jonathan Larson
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in the case of poetry, it's the exact opposite! View quote
Paul Dirac
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes in between them. View quote
Sydney Smith
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. (E. F. Schumacher)
It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite. View quote
Sam Levenson
Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is. View quote
Rollo May
What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you. View quote
Richard Wilbur
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. View quote
Susan Sontag
It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger. View quote
Gertrude Stein
The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness, It's Intimacy. View quote
Richard Bach
The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth. View quote
Thomas Mann
The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live. View quote
Bernard Mandeville
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. View quote
Eric Hoffer
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. View quote
Jim Hightower
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard