133 Quotations with Contrary.
- 1. Julius Rosenwald: Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily sma ...

- 2. Confucius: When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ours ...

- 3. W. Somerset Maugham: Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful i ...

- 4. Carl Rogers: I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he m ...

- 5. Albert Camus: The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and ...

- 6. George Santayana: Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparabl ...

- 7. Sidney Madwed: The motivation for all personal behavior is to produce a sense of "FEEL GOOD," a ...

- 8. Ambrose Bierce: DAMN, v. A word formerly much used by the Paphlagonians, the meaning of which is ...

- 9. Ambrose Bierce: EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its ...

- 10. Ambrose Bierce: IN'ARDS, n. The stomach, heart, soul and other bowels. Many eminent investigator ...

- 11. Ambrose Bierce: INSURANCE, n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitte ...

- 12. Ambrose Bierce: LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some p ...

- 13. Ambrose Bierce: MAD, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conformi ...

- 14. Ambrose Bierce: MAGNITUDE, n. Size. Magnitude being purely relative, nothing is large and nothin ...

- 15. Hermione Gingold: Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.

- 16. Morrow Mayo: Los Angeles, it should be understood, is not a mere city. On the contrary, it is ...

- 17. Pliny the Elder: To conclude, all other living creatures live orderly and well, after their own k ...

- 18. Confucius: When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a ...

- 19. Peter Ustinov: Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the pe ...

- 20. Enrico Fermi: There are two possible outcomes: If the result confirms the hypothesis, then you ...

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