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Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
— Blaise Pascal
The truth is paradoxical to the extent of being exactly contrary to the usual perception.
— Georges Bataille
I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
— Jimmy Carter
The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine revelation.
— Benjamin Franklin
Contrary to popular belief, you can make people think, but they will hate you for it.
— James Rozoff
I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pestered the world ever convince me to the contrary.
— Laurence Sterne
It is a human inclination to hope things will work out, despite evidence or doubt to the contrary. A successful manager must resist this temptation.
— Hyman Rickover
Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.
— Honore De Balzac
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Contrary to popular belief, the gene-centered theory of evolution does not imply that the point of all human striving is to spread our genes.
— Steven Pinker
Speculative fiction includes all stories that take place in a setting contrary to known reality.
— Orson Scott Card
Contrary to my image, I do have a sense of humour.
— Andy Murray
Contrary to what everyone thinks, in my family, we didn't talk about politics at home.
— Marion Marechal-Le Pen
No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.
— Samuel Johnson
There's no sacrifice in eating well, there is no sacrifice in pleasure. To the contrary, the best-grown food is actually the tastiest.
— Michael Pollan
All statutes to the contrary are revoked.
— Paulo Coelho
Contrary to the received wisdom, global markets are not unregulated. They are regulated to produce inequality.
— Kevin Watkins
Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness ... are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Do you think that love has to be requited to be genuine? On the contrary, it thrives on indifference.
— Violet Trefusis
God give me the wisdom to see the truth however contrary to my established beliefs.
— Robert Quillen
It is impossible to be hurt by someone you love contrary to popular belief. Only something or someone you fear can hurt you.
— Frederick Dodson
There is enough light for those who desire only to see, and enough darkness for those of a contrary disposition.
— Blaise Pascal
Anyone can achieve something important. Contrary to popular belief, the key is not hard work, but finding the right thing to achieve.
— Ernie J Zelinski
The inerrancy of Scripture means that scripture in the original manuscripts does not affirm anything that is contrary to fact.
— Wayne Grudem
But God has set no traps for us. Quite the contrary. He has summoned us to the only true and full freedom.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
— William Butler Yeats
Any color is more distinctly seen when opposed to its contrary: thus, black on white, blear near yellow, green near red, and so on.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.
— William Blackstone
Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.
— Pope John Paul II
True faith in God on the contrary awakens in you the mind of Christ, to reason yourself to the will and purposes of God.
— Sunday Adelaja
Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.
— Cyril Falls
It is time to recognize a simple fact of life. Contrary to what some of my colleagues seem to believe, tax cuts do not pay for themselves.
— George Voinovich
The idea of negotiating with the President of the United States runs contrary to everything that the Republicans have done since January 20, 2009.
— Keith Olbermann
One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
We found out that, contrary to what many people thought, in the immune system, genes can change during the life cycle of the individual.
— Susumu Tonegawa
Our beliefs are, however, often contrary to fact.
— Bertrand Russell
His will cannot be neutral or 'free' to act contrary to his nature.
— Charles Spurgeon
If there's good, strong evidence from science that such and such is the case and this is contrary to Buddhism, then we will change.
— Dalai Lama XIV
Love God, and do as you like, say the Free Spirits. Yes; but as long as you like anything contrary to God's will, you do not love Him.
— Meister Eckhart
To be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace.
— Thomas A Kempis
Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
— Augustine Of Hippo
Why does everyone run toward a blood-curdling scream?" mumbled the Senior Wrangler. "It's contrary to all sense.
— Terry Pratchett
Lightning always strikes in the same place twice," said Mma Ramotswe. "Whatever people say to the contrary.
— Alexander McCall Smith
Despite opinions to the contrary, restoring Godly values is the most progressive course of action that we could ever hope to take.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another.
— Isabel Allende
To a crazy ship, all winds are contrary.
— George Herbert
An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
— Aristophanes
What is contrary to women's nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play.
— John Stuart Mill
Friendship on the contrary is enjoyed in proportion to our desire: since it is a matter of the mind, with our souls being purified by practising it
— Michel De Montaigne
The paradox of knowledge is not confined to the small, atomic scale; on the contrary, it is as cogent on the scale of man, and even of the stars.
— Jacob Bronowski
To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.
— John Negroponte
We find other people's vanity contrary to our taste only when it is contrary to our vanity.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
On the Contrary, to Aristotle the 'forms' were in the things because they were the particular characteristics of these things
— Jostein Gaarder
Be careful not to become narrow-minded, or afraid of reading what is well written, quite the contrary, such writings are a source of comfort in life.
— Vincent Van Gogh
No, I don't wear contacts, and contrary to what some people have said, I do not have a glass eye.
— Jared Leto
Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet.
— Joanna Russ
You were born to journey in the direction of your purpose. Anything that halts your progress is contrary to your design.
— Steve Maraboli
We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
What is most contrary to salvation is not sin but habit.
— Charles Peguy
Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand.
— Mahatma Gandhi
It is contrary to the worship that is in contentedness.
— Jeremiah Burroughs
I came into this world restless despite many appearances to the contrary. Does that make me unique? I doubt it.
— Rod Stryker
God will never - never - lead you to do something that is contrary to His written Word, the Bible.
— Billy Graham
A man never, in any instance, wills any thing contrary to his desires, or desires any thing contrary to his Will.
— Jonathan Edwards
Contrary to what many skeptics had earlier believed, the Soviet economy is proof that a socialist command economy can function and even thrive.
— Paul Samuelson
You have a soft spot. Contrary to popular belief, it is not where you are weak, it is the gateway to indestructible power.
— Susan Piver
The sheriff listened uneasily to a sound, very uncommon at elections, of the populace expressing an opinion contrary to that of the lord of the soil.
— Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.
— Auguste Rodin
In the absence of evidence to the contrary, always assume you have the upper hand.
— Ronnie Montrose
You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath ... and even into the 70s.
— Charlton Heston
But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man.
— Roger Daltrey
Freedom, you see, is having events go in accordance with our will, never contrary to it.
— Epictetus
Faith never goes contrary to reason faith simply ignores reason and rises above it. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Contrary to the cliche', genuinely nice guys most often finish first or very near it.
— Steve Forbes
Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.
— Barack Obama
