Quotes about Opposite

Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.

We see that the world seeks happiness instead of holiness. Therefore, we assume we should do the opposite. But we're wrong.

We are not walking in the Word if our thoughts are opposite of what it says. We are not walking in the Word if we are not thinking in the Word.

To find gratitude and generosity when you could reasonably find hurt and resentment will surprise you. It will be so surprising because you will see so much of the opposite: people who have much more than others yet who react with anger when one advantage is lost or with resentment when an added gift is denied.

A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions

The opposite of patience is not impatience, but unbelief.

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

Reductio ad absurdum, or reduction to absurdity, is a form of argument that proves a statement by demonstrating that its opposite is absurd.