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Opposites Quotes

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites. ~ Marc Chagall

Any 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.~ John Dryden

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.~ Gersonides

Ask for your wife's advice and then do the opposite.~ Arabian Proverb

Communism is the complete opposite.~ Polish Proverb

Discouragement is the opposite of courage.~ Connie Tilley

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.~ Walt Whitman

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the oppositePlato

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.~ Andy Warhol

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?~ Opposites Quotes

I do not know how it comes about, but if you sit opposite a man every day and you are engaged in fighting him, you cannot help getting a liking for him whether he deserves it or not.~ A. J. Balfour

In me the tiger sniffs the rose.~ Siegfried Sassoon

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.~ Sir Humphrey Davy

It happens as one sees in cages: the birds who are outside despair of ever getting in, and those within are equally desirous of getting out~ Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind.~ George Bernard Shaw

It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.~ Eric Hoffer

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.~ Louis Aragon

Marriage is the opposite to a fever attack; it begins very hot and ends very cold.~ German Proverb

Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.~ Roger von Oech

My inclination first leads me in one direction, then in the opposite.~ Latin Proverb

One man's fault is another man's lesson.~ Maltese Proverb

One man's happiness is another man's sadness.~ Brazilian Proverb

Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.~ Niels Bohr

Opposites attract.~ Latin Proverb

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.~ Ben Hogan

The dictate of the light says: "Know yourself and what you are." The dark replies, "By all means, but then become afraid."~ Tanith Lee

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.~ William Blake

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

There are some people who only disgust with their abilities; and there are some people who please even with their faults.~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it.~ Eric Hoffer

The reverse side also has a reverse side.~ Japanese Proverb

The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions.~ Virgil

The world is not dialectical -- it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.~ Jean Baudrillard

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.~ John Kenneth Galbraith

Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.~ Luke

Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.~ Traditional Proverb

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite.~ Bertrand Russell

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.~ William Blake

direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.~

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