Quotes About Opposites Truth

#1. The opposite of what is noised about concerning men and things is often the truth.
[Fr., Le contraire des bruits qui courent des affaires ou des personnes est souvent la verite.]

Jean De La Bruyere

#2. But nerves always festered in the stillness of waiting. Left at idle, the mind could make a coward of even the bravest man.

D.J. Molles

#3. A man may be an heretic in the truth, and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.

Frederic Farrar

#4. Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#5. Get your tickets now. Buy cable now. Get your jerseys now. Pull your boats up to the docking stations now. Bring your Sea-Doos now. If you can't afford a Sea-Doo, get a raft.

Shaquille O'Neal

#6. As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#7. One master defines Zen as the art of feeling the polar star in the southern sky. Truth can be reached only through the comprehension of opposites.

Okakura Kakuzo

#8. The plan, a memory of the future, tries on reality to see if it fits.

Laurence Gonzales

#9. If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.

Niels Bohr

#10. A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it's exact opposite is also true.

Niels Bohr

#11. The truth is that economic competition is the very opposite of competition in the animal kingdom. It is not a competition in the grabbing off of scarce nature-given supplies, as it is in the animal kingdom. Rather, it is a competition in the positive creation of new and additional wealth.

George Reisman

#12. The troubling truth is that rewards and punishments are not opposites at all; they are two sides of the same coin. And it is a coin that does not buy very much.

Alfie Kohn

#13. True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#14. 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

#15. We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#16. No life can be dreary when work is delight.

Frances Ridley Havergal

#17. The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an 'ethics of communication'. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.

Alain Badiou

#18. Prayer is in all things, in all gestures.

Mother Teresa

#19. In every truth, the opposite is equally true. A truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is one-sided.

Hermann Hesse

#20. There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth

Niels Bohr

#21. Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare.

Mark Twain

#22. Oaths be of the heart, and he that breaketh them in open fact is oft, as now, no breaker in truth, for already were they scorned and trampled on by his opposites.

E.R. Eddison

#23. The various elements of truth stand in perpetual antithesis, sometimes requiring us to believe apparent opposites while we wait for the moment when we shall know as we are known.

A.W. Tozer

#24. Goodness & love are as real as their terrible opposites, and, in truth, far more real, though I say this mindful of the enormous evils ... But love is the final reality; and anyone who does not understand this, be he writer or sage, is a man flawed of wisdom.

Sheldon Vanauken

#25. The old saying of the two kinds of truth. To the one kind belongs statements so simple and clear that the opposite assertion obviously could not be defended. The other kind, the so-called 'deep truths', are statements in which the opposite also contains deep truth.

Niels Bohr

#26. The truth is you can't try to let go. Trying is the opposite of letting go. To let go is to relinquish trying. To let go is much more like to let be.

Adyashanti

#27. I write very personal songs. Subject matter is usually derived from some internal struggle that I am having.

Corey Smith

#28. If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.

Michel De Montaigne

#29. If you ask God for love,
He may give you someone to forgive.
If you ask God for patience,
He may give you someone to bear.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#30. There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite.

Henry David Thoreau

#31. God continually turns you from one state of feeling to another, revealing truth by means of opposites.... So that you may have the two wings of fear and hope; for the bird with one wing is unable to fly....

Jalaluddin Rumi

#32. You like lies?" Shallan asked. "Good lies," Pattern said. "That lie. Good lie." "What makes a lie good?" Shallan asked, taking careful notes, recording Pattern's exact words. "True lies." "Pattern, those two are opposites." "Hmmmm . . . Light makes shadow. Truth makes lies. Hmmmm.

Brandon Sanderson