Quotes with opposite

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  • Niels Bohr 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
    Danish scientist and physicist (1885 - 1962)
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  • Elie Wiesel The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Brian Hwang The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance.
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  • Fran Lebowitz The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Susan Sontag The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Virgil The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Niels Bohr There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
    Niels Bohr
    Danish scientist and physicist (1885 - 1962)
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  • Niels Bohr There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
    Niels Bohr
    Danish scientist and physicist (1885 - 1962)
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  • Virginia Woolf This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Nathaniel Branden To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.
    Nathaniel Branden
    Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer (1930 - 2014)
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  • Cary Grant To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.
    Cary Grant
    English-born American actor (1904 - 1986)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it’s just the opposite
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Anthony Burgess Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • Bruce Lee Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that. The void is all-inclusive; having no opposite, there is nothing which it excludes or opposes. The all illuminating light shines and is beyond the movement of the opposites.
    Striking Thoughts (2000)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Virginia Woolf We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Henry Fielding We endeavor to avoid censure by concealing our Vices under an Appearance of their opposite Virtues
    Joseph Andrews preface
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Henry Fielding We endeavour to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Carey Mulligan We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.
    Carey Mulligan
    English actress (1985 - )
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