Contrary

Famous quotes containing the word contrary:

    Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.... He does not have to struggle ... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.
    Aneurin Bevan (1897–1960)

    Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)