| "Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead." »Aldous Huxley |
| "The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see, which has people in it who believe in a variety of different things. Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence." »Frank Zappa |
| "Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves." »Confucius |
| "Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters." »Jean Baptiste Lacordaire |
| "The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot." »Mark Twain |
| "Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive." »John Kenneth Galbraith |
| "Although rumors persist to the contrary, there were no deaths while making the movie Ben Hur." »Deane Jordan |
| "Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young." »Ursula K. LeGuin |
| "Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary." »Julius Rosenwald |
| "This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half." »Aristotle |
| "Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before." »Herodotus |
| "There are two things which cannot be attacked in front ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion." »Emerich Edward Dalbert |
| "Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion." »Daniel J. Boorstin |
| "When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves." »Confucius |
| "contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first." »Peter Ustinov |
| "Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is." »George Santayana |
| "The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous -- on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "Whoever has inhabited the United States must have perceived that in those parts of the Union in which the Negroes are no longer slaves the have in no wise drawn nearer to the whites. On the contrary, the prejudice of race appears to be stronger in the states that have abolished slavery than those where it still exists and nowhere is it intolerant as in those states where servitude has never been known." »Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville |
| "contrary to popular belief, the most dangerous animal is not the lion or tiger or even the elephant. The most dangerous animal is a shark riding on an elephant, just trampling and eating everything they see." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we would fain be cheated and with which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we cheat other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself when he asserts the contrary, he is lying." »Marcel Proust |
| "Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. For the American citadel is a man. Not man in general. Not man in the abstract. Not the majority of men. But man. That man. His worth. His uniqueness." »Archibald MacLeish |
| "I do not mean to suggest that our handsome, newly enlarged library is to be a headquarters of busy bookworms, old and young, routinely absorbing knowledge by the hour while birds sing outside and the Mets fight it out for last place in the National League. On the contrary, a good library is a joyful place where the imagination roams free, and life is actively enriched." »John K. Hutchens |
| "The fact speak for themselves." »Demosthenes |
| "I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." »Socrates |
| "We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact." »Jean-Paul Sartre |
| "I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod." »Winston Churchill |
| "The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it." »Robin Green |
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