Contrarian Thinking Quotes

#1. Contrarian thinking at its best simply asks, Is this really true? It speaks up when the politically correct answer or the conventional wisdom doesn't match reality - when things simply don't work the way everyone says they should.

Larry Osborne

#2. Contrarian thinking doesn't make any sense unless the world still has secrets left to give up.

Peter Thiel

#3. A contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling.

Warren Buffett

#4. Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

Anthony Powell

#5. My own answer to the contrarian question is that most people think the future of the world will be defined by globalization, but the truth is that technology matters more.

Peter Thiel

#6. I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'

Dan Brown

#7. Yes, this is the only good thing in life: love! To hold a woman you love in your arms! That is the ultimate in human happiness.

Guy De Maupassant

#8. The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.

Peter Thiel

#9. You forget, darling.
I am the local psychopath.

Kelley Armstrong

#10. I got told by pretty much everyone I knew that, if I'm going to be out in L.A., working, you need a car. So I was thinking, I'm going to try and not get a car, just because I'm a contrarian that way.

Alfred Enoch

#11. I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I don't think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child of those first years in primary school.

Nick Clegg

#12. The biggest waste of water in the country by far. You spend half a pint and flush two gallons.

Prince Philip

#13. Music has to be written while people are still excited about a particular melodic or rhythmic sequence. The idea doesn't come out the same if we're not really excited about it.

Brandon Boyd

#14. Get in the race car do what I do then go home. We don't have freedom to do anything anymore.

Tony Stewart

#15. When Princess Diana got married, I was a very little kid, I think. I remember her dress, and I found the dress amazing when I was a kid.

Olivier Theyskens

#16. I cried myself to sleep every one of those nights you went out. I was in hell, praying for daylight when you'd be with me and not them

Kahlen Aymes