Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.

Max Weber

It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Socrates reminds us that it is not the same thing, but almost the opposite, to understand religion and to accept it.

Marina Abramovic

Most people are more comfortable with what is familiar. I’ve spent my life doing the opposite.

Matt Berninger

A person with grace is somebody who's socially graceful or is a classy person, but sometimes you just feel the opposite of that, and you just feel like a jerk and a loser and a weirdo.

Patricia Briggs

There is no cash in battling evil: just the opposite in my experience

Plato

Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.

Megan Fox

People compare me to Angelina Jolie, and she's so serious and stoic. I'm the opposite.

Max Muller

Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers.

May Sarton

Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.

May Sarton

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

Martin Starr

I have the reputation for being the opposite of a money-grubber.

Michel Foucault

Resistances do not derive from a few heterogeneous principles; but neither are they a lure or a promise that is of necessity betrayed. They are the odd term in relations of power; they are inscribed in the latter as an irreducible opposite.

Ted Cruz

I had a back-and-forth where I asked Donald Trump, is it true or false that he said the government should pay for everyone's health care? He said it's false. Listen, within minutes, we put out a video just contrasting what he said there with video of him just a few months earlier saying exactly the opposite.

Theodore J. Forstmann

The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks.

Margaret Heffernan

Making those around you feel invisible is the opposite of leadership.

Marcus Buckingham

The opposite of a leader isn't a follower. The opposite of a leader is a pessimist.

Michael Bolton

I have friends who've tried to break into the UK, who went back with their tails between their legs. Fortunately I've had the opposite experience.

Neale Donald Walsch

Hell is the opposite of joy. It is unfulfillment. It is knowing Who and What You Are, and failing to experience that. It is being less.

Johnny Depp

Marlon Brando was the absolute opposite of everything they told me he was going to be, which is that he was a testy guy who wants to know that he's in control of everything. But, that's not who Marlon was. No matter what he did, the most important thing on his mind was justice.

John Stuart Mill

He who knows only his own side of the case (argument) knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion

John Ralston Saul

Faith: The opposite of dogmatism.

James Richardson

It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When someone says You never stand in the same river twice someone else has already replied There is nothing new under the sun. In the mind's arithmetic, 1 plus -1 equals 2. Truths are not quantities but scripts: Become for a moment the mind in which this is true.

Kurt Tucholsky

The advantage of wisdom is that you can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Is there a greater tragedy imaginable than that, in our endeavour consciously to shape our future in accordance with high ideals, we should in fact unwittingly produce the very opposite of what we have been striving for?

Friedrich August von Hayek

Perhaps even more than elsewhere current notions of what is desirable and practicable are here still of a kind which may well produce the opposite of what they promise.

Eric Hoffer

Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the fanatic and the moderate who are poles apart and never meet.

Eric Hoffer

It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.

Eric Hoffer

There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it

Eric Hoffer

For though ours is a godless age, it is the very opposite of irreligious. The true believer is everywhere on the march, and both by converting and antagonizing he is shaping the world in his own image. And whether we are to line up with him or against him, it is well that we should know all we can concerning his nature and potentialities.

Eric Hoffer

It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.

Eric Bana

I'd say I'm the opposite of someone that has the urge to stand in front of strangers and make them laugh, but the idea of getting up and telling a story and people finding it amusing always appealed to me.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I understand the opposite side of the camera. I have a profound respect for that. I have worked with people who, when you hit that mark, are doing 50 percent of your work for you. So, you know, it's a balance. When you walk into a mark and you're lit a certain way or something's happening so often you don't know what's behind you... And that's what's so strange about being a movie actor.