#contrary

Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people. ↗

— Michael Palin

#believe #between #contrary #creating #leaders

The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#also #contrary #essential #general #grafted

I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#based #cannot #communication #conscious #contrary

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#arrested #been #chance #child-like #cocoon

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#artist #contrary #finer #immorality #morality

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#common #contrary #erroneous #humble #idea

On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film. ↗

— Walter Salles

#coming #contrary #film #i #imperfection

I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature. I don't like to be told what to do. I think it goes back to school. I like to do things I want to do and I really don't like doing what I don't want to do. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#back #back to school #contrary #doing #goes

I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself. ↗

— Omar Sharif

#any #comfortable #contrary #feels #film

When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

#contrary #examine #inward #men #ourselves