Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary although it has often been made has never proved widely persuasive.

I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.

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

Faith is not contrary to reason.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Ground not upon dreams you know they are ever contrary.

I now add farther that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey and submit to such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good and so to the design of their office that it proves the direct contrary.

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal While others on the contrary obtain a victory by exerting at the last moment more vigorous efforts than ever before.

The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden mysterious realm on the contrary it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.

True courage is like a kite a contrary wind raises it higher.

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.

The automobile both a cause and an effect of this decentralization is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.

Contrary to popular opinion the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.

Contrary to general belief I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best they are merely the people who got there first.

Contrary to popular opinion things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.