| "The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting." »Fran Lebowitz |
| "The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." »Niels Henrik David 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 |
| "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." »Archibald MacLeish |
| "To know one thing, you must know the opposite." »Henry Moore |
| "To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation." »Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
| "Antonym, n. The opposite of the word you're trying to think of." »Unknown |
| "We're actors - we're the opposite of people." »Tom Stoppard |
| "The politician is an acrobat he keeps his balance by doing the opposite of what he says." »Maurice Barrs |
| "Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it." »Rebecca Johnson |
| "The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind." »May Sarton |
| "For every action there is an equal and opposite government program." »Bob Wells |
| "I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy." »Dr. |
| "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 poetry, it's the exact opposite." »Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac |
| "Genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum." »Charles Spencer |
| "I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite." »G. K. Chesterton |
| "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." »Eric Hoffer |
| "Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so jointed that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them." »Logan Pearsall Smith |
| "For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it." »Malcom Gladwell |
| "The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience." »John Updike |
| "If you cry 'Forward' you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite" »Anton Pavlovich Chekhov |
| "An 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" »Hoshang N. Akhtar |
| "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." »Albert Einstein |
| "Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence." »Norman Podhoretz |
| "I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences." »Walt Whitman |
| "He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden." »Plato |
| "In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite." »Robert Reich |
| "America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true." »James T. Farrell |
| "Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite." »John Kenneth Galbraith |
| "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 Harris |
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