120 Polar Opposite Quotes
Following is our list of polar opposite quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about two opposites.
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Famous Polar Opposite Quotes
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary. — Niels Bohr
It seems to me that in the orbit of our world you are the North Pole, I the South--so much in balance, in agreement--and yet... the whole world lies between. — Thomas Wolfe
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. — Andy Warhol
Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you. — Susan Cain
There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction. — Franz Kafka
Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We are always seeking our opposite, whether we know it or not. When we discover what that is we can dissolve our arrogance. — Michio Kushi
Success lies in the opposite direction of the normal pull. — Jim Rohn
I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities. — Meryl Streep
The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites. — Carl Jung
The opposite of love? Vice. Temptation. The negative influences that we have. The bad energy that comes around us and makes us do certain things. To me, it's always been a war between the two. — Kendrick Lamar
The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power — C. S. Lewis
Opposites may attract, but I wouldn't put my money on a relationship of financial opposites. — Suze Orman
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. — Elie Wiesel
Short Polar Opposite Quotes
- It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. — Albert Einstein
- The opposite of love is not hate, its apathy, when u simply don't bother about that person! — Amish Tripathi
- The opposite of love is not hate. It is fear. — Gary Zukav
- Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony. — Heraclitus
- The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love. — Albert Camus
- Opposite action can change underlying emotions and help in managing emotional health. — Peter Attia
- It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth. — Niels Bohr
- If pursuing the positive is a negative, then pursuing the negative generates the positive. — Mark Manson
- The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction. — Plato
- Every action has an equal and opposite reaction — Isaac Newton
Polar Opposite Image Quotes
Complete Opposites Quotes
People always tell me I'm the complete opposite of Chief Keef and act like I'm supposed to stop him from making his music. But I like Chief Keef, so it's always super awkward. I just make music I like. — Chance the Rapper
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. — Fetty Wap
In the old days rank was not important - The complete opposite of today. You just trained — Higa Yuchoku
I used to psych myself up before the show and now I do the complete opposite: I psych myself down. It's 12:30 at night, you don't want some guy yelling at you. You want some guy just talking to you. — Craig Ferguson
Good and Evil are very hard to explain or understand. I'm sure that evil exists, but it is hard to isolate. Good and evil are intertwined and impossible to separate. They are not completely opposites and in fact are often one and the same. — Keith Haring
Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health. — Hippocrates
If you were to start a business completely from scratch, with no ideas in mind, then my answer would be the opposite. — Pat Flynn
With me, personal relationships are like my religion. I care that deeply about them. I am the complete opposite of a manipulative smoothie. — Charles Grodin
i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Horcrux is the complete opposite of a human being. — J. K. Rowling
Two Opposites Quotes
There is nothing I dread so much as the division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our constitution. — John Adams
I simply cannot accept that there are on every story two equal and logical sides to an argument. — Edward R. Murrow
Vertical and horizontal lines are the expression of two opposing forces; they exist everywhere and dominate everything; their reciprocal action constitutes 'life'. I recognized that the equilibrium of any particular aspect of nature rests on the equivalence of its opposites. — Piet Mondrian
Other than He cannot be qualified by two (opposite) qualities at one time; yet With Him they do not create opposition. He is hidden in His manifestation, manifest in His concealing. — Mansur Al-Hallaj
Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman). — Milan Kundera
It follows at once from the last proposition that the centre of gravity of any triangle is at the intersection of the lines drawn from any two angles to the middle points of the opposite sides respectively. — Archimedes
My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity. — Kenzaburo Oe
Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them. — Orson Welles
It's very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It's easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together and finally respect each other. — Fred Rogers
The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love Opposite Quotes
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. — Elie Wiesel
I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite. — Shane Koyczan
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. — Nelson Mandela
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. — Leo Buscaglia
The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power. — Elie Wiesel
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star. — E. E. cummings
Let us have love and more love; a love that melts all opposition, a love that conquers all foes, a love that sweeps away all barriers, a love that aboundeth in charity, a large-heartedness, tolerance, forgiveness and noble striving, a love that triumphs over all obstacles. — Abdu'l-Bahá
The opposite of love is apathy, and hate is really the same as love-if your so consumed with hatred for someone, you might as well be loving them because your thinking about them for the same amount of time. — Marilyn Manson
We have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love. Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire. Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff. — Tim Minchin
Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Do The Opposite Quotes
All your experiences, all your meditations, all your prayer, all that you do, is self-centred. It is strengthening the self, adding momentum, gathering momentum, so it is taking you in the opposite direction. Whatever you do to be free from the self also is a self-centred activity. — U.G. Krishnamurti
Watch what everyone else does--do the opposite. The majority is always wrong. — Earl Nightingale
I’VE ALWAYS BEEN A REBEL. I NEVER DO THINGS THE WAY THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO BE DONE. EITHER I GO IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION OR I CREATE A NEW DIRECTION FOR MYSELF, REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE RULES ARE OR WHAT SOCIETY SAYS. — Grace Jones
Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage. — Charles Simmons
There is definitely a lot of banks that are interested in private blockchains. In some cases, they are happy with public blockchains as well. The opposition to just doing things on a public blockchain is definitely smaller than some of the strongest detractors think. — Vitalik Buterin
Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing. — Ben Hogan
The U.K. needs a strong opposition, and Labour shows no signs of being capable of being that. The SNP is filling that void and will go on seeking to do that. — Nicola Sturgeon
When you follow your heart, you're never supposed to do things because of what you think people might say. You do it for the opposite reasons. — will.i.am
I came into politics because of my opposition to what a Tory Government was doing to the community I grew up in. — Nicola Sturgeon
Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same. — George Orwell
Opposites Attract Quotes
Opposites attract each other. — Hungarian Proverbs
Women's liberation will not be achieved until a woman can become paunchy and bald and still think she's attractive to the opposite sex. — Earl Wilson
Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age. — Katharine Hepburn
Opposites can attract, as in magnetism. Or explode, as in matter and antimatter. — Peter David
When I met you it was magic... We polar opposites, but attracted like we was magnets. — Talib Kweli
Why do men like intelligent women? Because opposites attract. — Kathy Lette
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. — Andy Warhol
To have divine favor on your life means you'll attract extraordinary opposition — Bill Johnson
What is common sense? That which attracts the least opposition that which brings most agreeable and worthy results. — E. W. Howe
Opposites attract - and then can't stand each other. — Kenneth Kaye
People Writing About Polar Opposite
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Niels Bohr |
78 | 1218 |
 Thomas Wolfe |
59 | 975 |
 Andy Warhol |
332 | 2163 |
 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
129 | 1476 |
 Susan Cain |
123 | 560 |
 Franz Kafka |
414 | 5328 |
More Polar Opposite Quotes
Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. — Martin Luther
If we were to set out to establish a religion in polar opposition to the Beatitudes Jesus taught, it would look strikingly similar to the pop Christianity that has taken over the airwaves of North America. — Tony Campolo
Freedom and relationship are polar opposites - they both exist on the same continuum. You DO want a relationship - and you DO want freedom - what you really want is BALANCE, you want wholeness. — Shakti Gawain
Love is without a doubt the laziest theory for the meaning of life, but when it actually comes a time to do it we find just enough energy to over-complicate life again. Any devil can love, whom he himself sees as, a good person who has treated him well, but to love also the polar opposite is what separates love from fickle emotions. — Criss Jami
People ask me what my greatest strengths are and I say perspective. The best way to get that is to meet people that are polar opposites; you learn the most from them. There are pieces of you that are inherently yours, but everything else is a collection of the things you’ve seen and the people you’ve met. — Eddie Huang
Love of consciousness evokes the same in response Love of feeling evokes the opposite Love of body depends only on type and polarity. — G. I. Gurdjieff
The world we live in is made up of polar opposites, black/white, male/female, night/day, and a human being who possesses both masculine and feminine – vulnerability and strength – is intriguing to us, whether they be a singer or actor or dancer, intrigues us, because THAT Is who we really are. — RuPaul
Fantasy love is much better than Reality Love. — Andy Warhol
Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole. Without socialization, passion is a crude barbarian, and without passion, the elegant and polite are dead. Allow both passion and courtesy into your life in equal measure, and be complete. — Vera Nazarian
It's kind of strange to be a free soloist when you know so much about flying, because I'm playing two opposite games, or practicing two polar opposite arts. One is the art of not falling. The other one is flying. With both those things spinning in my mind, there's a lot to process and it's pretty mind-boggling. — Dean Potter
Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive. — Daley Thompson
Psychologically, when you've been overweight you want to achieve the polar opposite. — Craig David
The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites. — James Hollis
Our band is very polarizing. There are people who absolutely can't stand us, and people who absolutely can't live without us. I'd rather spark those kind of polar-opposite feelings than have people be indifferent. — Ben Gibbard
What is there about polarity that is matter becoming more complex? — Norman Mailer
Power at its best is love implementing the demand of justice. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
My life has been the polar opposite of safe, but I am proud of it and so is my son, and that is good enough for me. I would do it all over again without changing the beat, although I have never recommended it to others. That would be cruel and irresponsible and wrong, I think, and I am none of those things. — Hunter S. Thompson
Love and hate, despite their polar opposites, are both feelings that are induced by passion. I can handle that. It's the indifference I don't know how to process. — Colleen Hoover
On the surface, we're polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we're the same: people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong. — Jodi Picoult
It always amazed me that he was able to do it, and that Orson Welles was able to do it. I never understood it because the talents are absolutely opposite - polar opposites. — Mark Rydell
Peace does not mean an absence of conflict, because opposition, polarity and conflict are natural and universal laws. — Bryant H. McGill
We live in a polarized world of contrived dualisms, dichotomies and paradoxes: light vs. dark and good vs. evil. We as Mexic Amerindians/mestizas are the dark. We are the evilor at least, the questionable. — Ana Castillo
Developing a genius mindset essentially comes down to two things: operating at speed and using the subconscious mind more than the conscious. This intuitive or relaxed approach to study is the polar opposite of traditional and mainstream forms of education. — James Morcan
It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music. — Eric Hoffer
Worrying and power are polar opposites. — Bryant H. McGill
Peace does not mean an absence of conflict, because opposition, polarity and conflict are natural and universal laws. Peace is a way of constructively handling natural conflict. — Bryant H. McGill
I really believe that Donald Trump is so polarizing even within the Republican Party that he will fail to have a majority if he is, in fact, our nominee. I think he will be shredded by the Democrats based on the opposition research that's there. — Scott Rigell
I think if I had done anything else I would like to have been a doctor. This is the sort of polar opposition to being a writer, I suppose. — Sylvia Plath
My problem with my parents growing up was not that I was afraid to cry in front of them - they always wanted me to cry because they wanted me to be okay, but it felt kind of icky and gross to cry in front of my parents. So my problem was the polar opposite - I didn't want to cry in front of them because I didn't want to give them the satisfaction. — Lucas Hedges
Hillary Clinton has a real history of uniting people, of being able to work with both Republicans and Democrats, of trying to fight for people's equal rights. Whereas we really see the polar opposite in her opponent. — Natalie Portman
The organizer must become schizoid, politically, in order to slip into becoming a true believer. Before men can act an issue must be polarized. Men will act when they are convinced their cause is 100 percent on the side of the angels and that the opposition are 100 percent on the side of the devil. He knows there can be no action until issues are polarized to this degree. — Saul Alinsky
If a character is going to end up one way, you start them a certain way. If they're gonna end up the polar opposite of that, you might start them differently to have dramatic integrity to their journey. — Neil Burger
To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live? We are incompetent to solve the times. Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return, and reconcile their opposition. We can only obey our own polarity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I actually prefer getting into roles that are the polar opposite of me; that's why I've done so many dark and dreary things. — Lauren Lee Smith
Transformations don't scare me: it thrills me to become the polar opposite. — Alexandra Roach
Rapping and singing are not two polar opposites. There's so much middle ground. And I think there's a lot of people who find that middle ground. — Ezra Koenig
The Law Polarity decrease that everything has an opposite it's the flip side of the coin, you're right my left, the front the back, consider this next time you disagree with someone because their right from their point of view. — Bob Proctor
Did everyone make the most ghastly blunders at regularly intervals through their life and live to regret them ever afterward? Was everyone's life filled with confusing and contradictory mix of guilt and innocence, hatred and love, concern and unconcern, and any number of other pairings of polar opposites? Or were most people one thing or the other - good or bad, cheerful or crotchety, generous or miserly, and so on. — Mary Balogh
All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics. — Zosia Mamet
In every well-written play the battle rages between the primary powers of Good and Evil, and it is this battle which constitutes the life impulse of the play, its driving force, and is basic to all plot structures...In any true piece of art...the beginning and the end are, or should be, polar in principle. All the main qualities of the first section should transform themselves into their opposites in the last section. — Michael Chekhov
How did thie person-someone I'd imagined would be my polar opposite-always seem to find the things that would make me the happiest? — Kiera Cass
What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like fate. — Jeanette Winterson
Anna is the only proof I have that I was born into this family. Instead of dropped off on the doorstep by some Bonnie and Clyde couple that ran off into the night. On the surface, we’re polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we’re the same: people think they know what they’re getting, and they’re always wrong. (Jesse) — Jodi Picoult
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