Top 1200 Contrary To Popular Belief Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

We were terrified that Jones would settle. It was contrary to our purpose of bringing down the president.

The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it.

Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.

Despite overwhelming and irrefutable evidence to the contrary, President Obama continues to believe that he can negotiate with Republicans.

Nothing is impossible to us, except of course, that which is contrary to the laws of nature and the Universe.

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Contrary to the cliche', genuinely nice guys most often finish first or very near it.

Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.

One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.

If I am to wholly follow the Lord Jesus Christ, I must forsake everything that is contrary to Him.

This truth I firmly hold, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding; my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world.

Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.

Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles.

For every prescriptive idea about the craft of fiction, there's at least one writer who makes a virtue of the contrary.

Contrary to some self-serving reports, I am okay and strong. I have not hit rock bottom.

Contrary to what many say, Real are a unit. Individual brilliance is always a last resort.

Contrary to what many may think, immortality is not a fairy tale invented to compensate for an unhappy life.

Morality, after all, has nothing to do with selflessness. On the contrary, self-interest is precisely the basis of the categorical imperative.

In 'Aarathu Sinam', I play a wife and mother. It's a very homely character, quite contrary to what I've done so far.

Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness..... are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy.

The Victorians had not been anxious to go away for the weekend. The Edwardians, on the contrary, were nomadic.

Not a desire, act, wish, or thought does the Holy Ghost indulge in contrary to that which is dictated by the Father

Socialism cannot function, because its economic reward structure is contrary to human nature.

Is there any evidence to the contrary? I don't need certainty in order to act on a well-founded suspicion.

Elegance and comfort are not incompatible, and whoever maintains the contrary simply doesn't know what he's talking about

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary.

Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

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.

Information...exhausts itself in the staging of meaning...[and leads] not at all to a surfeit of innovation but to the very contrary, to total entropy

But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man.

If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science they are mere superstitions and imaginations.

Koresh believed that God had a plan that would go contrary to any human planning.

No longer what your belief about yourself is - if you've always been poor, if you've always been overweight, if you've always had rotten relationships, if your luck hasn't been good, if you don't attract into your life the things you want, if you've always been shy or always been aggressive - whatever it is and however long you've held it, the belief that you can't change it is not aligned with Source. Source says you can be anything. You can do anything. You're infinite.

Once infected, the individual [infected with a god virus] cannot detect major contradictions in his beliefs and behavior. Belief systems become self-evident to him, and no amount of logical discourse will move him from his belief. If a Mormon and Catholic were to debate the merits of their respective religions, neither could see his own inconsistencies and logical fallacies, but would see the other's quite clearly.

We are resolved to protect individual freedom of belief. This freedom must include the child as well as the parent. The freedom for which we stand is not freedom of belief as we please,... not freedom to evade responsibility, ...but freedom to be honest in speech and action, freedom to respect one's own integrity of thought and feeling, freedom to question, to investigate, to try, to understand life and the universe in which life abounds, freedom to search anywhere and everywhere to find the meaning of Being, freedom to experiment with new ways of living that seem better than the old.

In the Bible poverty is a scandalous condition inimical to human dignity and therefore contrary to the will of God.

Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.

Contrary to general expectations, caste, regionalism, criminalisation, and parochial interests continue to sway the nation.

Muslims are not ashamed of their Prophet's teaching about war. On the contrary, for us it is a great source of pride.

Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest.

Everything I ever worried about turned out exactly as it was going to, despite my anxious moments to the contrary.

I have a friend — or had a friend, now dead — Abdus Salam, a very devout Muslim, who was trying to bring science into the universities in the Gulf states and he told me that he had a terrible time because, although they were very receptive to technology, they felt that science would be a corrosive to religious belief, and they were worried about it… and damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive of religious belief, and it’s a good thing too.

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

It is not with low prices-but on the contrary-it is with improved quality we cannot only hold the market, but improve it.

God give me the wisdom to see the truth however contrary to my established beliefs.

The ghostly presence of virtual particles defies rational common sense and is nonintuitive for those unacquainted with physics. Religious belief in God, and Christian belief that God became Man around two thousand years ago, may seem strange to common-sense thinking. But when the most elementary physical things behave in this way, we should be prepared to accept that the deepest aspects of our existence go beyond our common-sense intuitions.

The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Prolonged inflation never 'stimulates' the economy. On the contrary, it unbalances, disrupts, and misdirects production and employment.

To worship God is to admit that we are entirely contrary to Him, and that He is willing to make us like Himself.

The ability to help others gain insights seems very important to me, and I think one of the most effective, but most difficult, ways is to listen sympathetically when people seem to be saying stupid things or thinking in confused ways. Rather than write them off, we can try to diagnose what is wrong with their thinking - what flawed belief they might be holding. And then search for ways that enables them to discover the flawed belief for themselves.

Our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.

Russia is not engaged in a fight against Daesh in Syria. On the contrary, they are actually targeting moderate opposition.

God cannot honor anything, no matter its degree of sincerity, if it is contrary to His Word.

The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.