100 Inverse Quotes

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Famous Inverse Quotes

Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

everything changes, nothing perishes — Ovid

The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up. — Billy Sunday

All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite. — Anaxagoras

A library is infinity under a roof. — Gail Carson Levine

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture. — Emily Dickinson

Creation exists only in the unforeseen made necessary. — Pierre Boulez

If a thing loves, it is infinite. — William Blake

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity. - Alfred Jarry

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity. — Alfred Jarry

A fractal is a way of seeing infinity. — Benoit Mandelbrot

After exponential quantities the circular functions, sine and cosine, should be considered because they arise when imaginary quantities are involved in the exponential. — Leonhard Euler

See, decide, attack, reverse. - Erich Hartmann

See, decide, attack, reverse. — Erich Hartmann

Success lies in the opposite direction of the normal pull. — Jim Rohn

Change alone is unchanging. - Heraclitus

Change alone is unchanging. — Heraclitus

To overcome a desperate situation, make a complete turn in one sudden burst. — Japanese Proverbs

Short Inverse Quotes

  • The strength of your character is inversely correlated with how easy you are to offend. — Alex Hormozi
  • Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other. — Leon Trotsky
  • The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die. — Mahatma Gandhi
  • In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival. — Neil Armstrong
  • Memory as an inversion of historical time is the essence of interiority. — Emmanuel Levinas
  • My moods are inversely related to the clarity of the sky. — Glenn Gould
  • Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The usefulness of a meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance. — Lane Kirkland
  • The value of an ad is in inverse ratio to the number of times it has been used. — Raymond Rubicam
  • The more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate. — Hans Eysenck

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In Inverse Proportion Quotes

In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. — C. Northcote Parkinson

Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value. ... Unqualified judgment can at most claim to decide the market-value - a value that can be in inverse proportion to the intrinsic value. — Arnold Schoenberg

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats. — Bill Veeck

I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it. — Arthur Schopenhauer

In any enterprise, your perspiration will be inversely proportional to your preparation. — Scott Sorrell

The results you produce in life are inversely proportional to the degree to which you are intimidated. — Robert Ringer

The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room's altitude, especially atop bank and hotel buildings (airplanes are an extreme example). — Bryan Q. Miller

In all cases where work is produced by heat, a quantity of heat proportional to the work done is expended; and inversely, by the expenditure of a like quantity of work, the same amount of heat may be produced. — Rudolf Clausius

At American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom. — Calvin Trillin

Inversion Quotes

The degree of the pain will be proportional to the price you will be able to charge When they hear the solution to their pain, and inversely, what their life would look like without this pain, they should be drawn to your solution. — Alex Hormozi

The desire to maximize the number of winning trades (or minimize the number of losing trades) works against the trader. The success rate of trades is the least important performance statistic and may even be inversely related to performance. — William Eckhardt

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. — Ayn Rand

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get. — Bertrand Russell

Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have. — Dennis Prager

One knows that frontal and/or profile photography is torn to pieces... Inversely, what remains of the photograph must be seen as a fragment coming to fill a gap in the drawing. — Jean-Francois Lyotard

There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate. — Hans Eysenck

A player's ability to rebound is inversely proportional to the distance between where he was born and the nearest railroad tracks. The greater distance you live from the poor side of the railroad tracks, the less likely that you will be a good rebounder. — Pete Carril

I verily believe that a man's way with women is in inverse ratio to his prowess among men. The weakling and the saphead have often great ability to charm the fair sex, while the fighting man who can face a thousand real dangers unafraid, sits hiding in the shadows like some frightened child. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

There is no inverse relationship between freedom and security. Less of one does not lead to more of the other. People with no rights are not safe from terrorist attack. — Molly Ivins

Reverse Quotes

Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse! — Archimedes

Never finish a negative statement; reverse it immediately, and wonders will happen in your life. — Joseph Murphy

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. Cesar Chavez Address to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984 — Cesar Chavez

Reverse petting zoo. You pet the animals, and they pet you back. - Andy Biersack

Reverse petting zoo. You pet the animals, and they pet you back. — Andy Biersack

Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others. — Bill W.

To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice. — Carolyn Heilbrun

I used to believe that gratitude for life came from being happy, but I have come to realize that the reverse is also true, perhaps even more so: being happy comes from feeling grateful for life. — William Ury

Many of the engineers I interviewed worked on reverse-engineering technology. — Annie Jacobsen

Reverse them by resetting your oral microbiome, you haven't been given the proper advice. Oral dysbiosis is at the root of all oral disease and illness today. — Mark Burhenne

I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity. My name is no longer my own. I try to lie as much as I can when I’m interviewed. It’s reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they’ll print the truth. — River Phoenix

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More Inverse Quotes

I tend to follow a very nocturnal sort of existence mainly because I don't much care for sunlight. Bright colors of any kind depress me, in fact. And my moods are more or less inversely related to the clarity of the sky, on any given day.... my private motto has always been that behind every silver lining there is a cloud. — Glenn Gould

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion. — Blaise Pascal

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. — Aldous Huxley

In the history of mankind there are recorded two great Inversions. The first, set forth by the Nazarene to the effect that love is a greater power and more real than vengeance. The second proclaimed the earth to be a sphere revolving in its course around the sun. These affirmations were made in the face of all evidence sacred to the contrary. — Louis Sullivan

The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan

There's a perceived inverse relation between looks and talent. Look at Charlize Theron - she made herself ugly for 'Monster' and suddenly everyone said 'she's a genius.' It shouldn't be like that. — Lena Headey

The amount of time that a young girl spends wearing pink will be inversely proportional to her future income. — Sandra Lerner

Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards. — Irving Babbitt

There's an idea I came across a few years ago that I love: My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance and in inverse proportion to my expectations. That's the key for me. If I can accept the truth of 'This is what I'm facing - not what can I expect but what I am experiencing now' - then I have all this freedom to do other things. — Michael J. Fox

The true nature of bureaucracy may be nowhere more obvious to the observer than in a developing country, for only there will it still be made manifest by the full complement of documents, files, veneered desks and cabinets - which convey the strict and inverse relationship between productivity and paperwork. — Alain de Botton

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. — Aldous Huxley

Most people are average. Founders are not. Founders' traits seem to have an inverse normal distribution to them. — Peter Thiel

All problems in computer graphics can be solved with a matrix inversion. — Jim Blinn

By such deductions the law of gravitation is rendered probable, that every particle attracts every other particle with a force which varies inversely as the square of the distance. The law thus suggested is assumed to be universally true. — Isaac Newton

It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore — Alex Carey

One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right. — Alan Rickman

There is neither a proportional relationship, nor an inverse one, between a writer’s estimation of a work in progress & its actual quality. The feeling that the work is magnificent, & the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged. — Annie Dillard

We witness a strange inversion: on the one hand, the endeavor to turn the social contract into a less calculating and more feeling connection among its members; on the other hand, the endeavor to turn the erotic relationship into a contractual one. — Allan Bloom

I consider myself to be an inverse paranoid. I always operate as if everything is part of a universal plot to enhance my well-being. — Jack Canfield

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