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Opposites Quotes
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary. (Quote by - Niels Bohr)
It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
The dictate of the light says: "Know yourself and what you are." The dark replies, "By all means, but then become afraid." (Quote by - Tanith Lee)
All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites. (Quote by - Marc Chagall)
There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
The unifying of opposites is the eternal process. (Quote by - Mary Parker Follett)
The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity. (Quote by - Nicholas Mosley)
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. (Quote by - Louis Aragon)
It always amazed me that he was able to do it, and that Orson Welles was able to do it. I never understood it because the talents are absolutely opposite - polar opposites. (Quote by - Mark Rydell)
Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do. (Quote by - Clara Barton)
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. (Quote by - George Santayana)
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin. (Quote by - Hermann Hesse)