Opposite Quotes - page 2

The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones. (Sydney J. Harris)
Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal. View quote
George Eliot
Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion. View quote
Tennessee Williams
A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one. View quote
Thomas Malthus
If civilization has an opposite, it is war. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. View quote
Elie Wiesel
The very general occurrence of the homosexual in ancient Greece, and its wide occurrence today in some cultures in which such activity is not taboo suggests that the capacity of an individual to respond erotically to any sort of stimulus, whether it is provided by another person of the same or opposite sex, is basic in the species. View quote
Alfred Kinsey
It cannot be too frequently emphasized that the behavior of any animal must depend upon on the nature of the stimulus which it meets, its anatomic and physiologic capacities, and its background of previous experience. Unless it has been conditioned by previous experience, an animal should respond identically to identical stimuli, whether they emanate from some part of its own body, from another individual of the same sex, or from an individual of the opposite sex. View quote
Alfred Kinsey
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite. (Edward Albee)
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... View quote
Mitch Hedberg
We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success. View quote
Arianna Huffington
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear the strength so strong mere force is feebleness the truth more first than sun, more last than star. View quote
E. E. Cummings
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. View quote
Bertrand Russell
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. View quote
Sholem Asch
Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down. View quote
Julia Cameron
Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith. View quote
Paul Tillich
Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction. (John Avlon)
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be. View quote
Archibald MacLeish
No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. View quote
Nelson Mandela
There are two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of fact. The truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; the truths of fact are contingent and their opposites are possible. View quote
Gottfried Leibniz
Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary. View quote
Karl Marx