Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, but it is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, and the other of granting it. The one is the pope, armed with fire and fagot, and the other is the pope selling or granting indulgences.
It is not a camera, or a reporter that makes something real and genuine; more often a camera or a reporter does the opposite.
There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appear obvious. Whatever appears as the unshakeable truth, its exact opposite may also be true in another context. After all, one's reality is but perception, viewed through various prisms of context.
In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.
I think if you live in London, it's such a cosmopolitan city; nobody even notices different-race relationships. I assumed it would be even more liberal in the States, and it's totally the opposite.
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
Psychologically, when you've been overweight you want to achieve the polar opposite.
That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.
There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite.
Study the methods of your competitors and do the exact opposite.
Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.
They say seeing is believing, but the opposite is true. Believing is seeing.
I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.
No, I don't think you're paranoid. I think you're the opposite of paranoid. I think you walk around with the insane delusion that people like you.
For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.
The opposite of thinking clearly is being muddled. To be conscious of being muddled is a horrible experience. To avoid it we may even be tempted to shut our minds and swallow a belief, ready-made, from some expert authority.
Sense of humor: A thread of illuminated intelligence that links two opposite ideas.
I've always been my own person. I don't do what people want me to do. Like, if you want me to do that, I'm going to do the complete opposite.
Necessity may not be the opposite of freedom, and perhaps a man is most free when, instead of producing motives, he could only say, "I am what I do.
Juliana's a year older than me, but she sometimes seems younger - mostly because she's the opposite of cynical and I'm the opposite of the opposite of cynical.