Complementary Quotes

• The union of opposites, in so far as they are really complementary, always results in the most perfect harmony; and the seemingly incongruous is often the most natural.

  Stefan Zweig

  Opposites, Perfect, Unions

  "Beware of Pity". Book by Stefan Zweig, 1939.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.

  Niels Bohr

  Education, Teacher, Learning

  57 Copy quote

• To be successful you must recognise your weaknesses and employ people with complementary skills.

  Duncan Bannatyne

  Successful, Skills, People

  5 Copy quote

• What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

  John Steinbeck

  Summer, Winter, Weather

  136 Copy quote

• To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Color, Two, Vibrations

  Naomi E. Maurer, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin (1998). “The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin”, p.74, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• For many people, managing pain involves using prescription medicine in combination with complementary techniques like physical therapy, acupuncture, yoga and massage. I appreciate this because I truly believe medical care should address the person as a whole - their mind, body, and spirit.

  Naomi Judd

  Pain, Believe, Yoga

  23 Copy quote

• Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Two, Rivals, Facts

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• We're broken in complementary ways, thus rendering our damage comprehensible to each other.

  Ann Aguirre

  Broken, Way, Damage

  Ann Aguirre (2010). “Killbox”, p.14, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being; he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act in unison. I believe that in the heart of each human being there is something which I can only describe as a child of darkness who is equal and complementary to the more obvious child of light.

  Laurens van der Post

  Children, Believe, Heart

  Laurens Van Der Post (2013). “Feather Fall: An Anthology of Laurens Van Der Post”, p.35, Random House

  35 Copy quote

  Show source

• Falling in love indicated that your genes were complementary to those of the loved one. It told you nothing about when your personalities and sexualities were compatible.

  Ken MacLeod

  Falling In Love, Personality, Loved Ones

  "Learning the World". Book by Ken MacLeod, 2005.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think that the scienti?c way of looking at the world, and the humanistic way of looking at the world are complementary. There are important differences which should be preserved, and in trying to do away with those differences we would lose something the same way as if we tried to make all religions one religion or all races one race. There is a cultural diversity that's very valuable, and it's valuable to have different ways of looking at the world.

  Alan Lightman

  Thinking, Differences, Race

  8 Copy quote

• I am always in the hope to express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors - colors which marry each other... complement each other as a man and a woman do.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Men, Two, Color

  14 Copy quote

• Composition is a process of combination, in which thought puts together complementary truths, and talent fuses into harmony the most contrary qualities of style. So that there is no composition without effort, without pain even, as in all bringing forth. The reward is the giving birth to something living--something, that is to say, which, by a kind of magic, makes a living unity out of such opposed attributes as orderliness and spontaneity, thought and imagination, solidity and charm.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Pain, Writing, Giving

  5 Copy quote

• A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer; that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us. Nobody loves the light like the blind man.

  Victor Hugo

  Simple, Men, Light

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.441, Wordsworth Editions

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Epistemology now flourishes with various complementary approaches. This includes formal epistemology, experimental philosophy, cognitive science and psychology, including relevant brain science, and other philosophical subfields, such as metaphysics, action theory, language, and mind. It is not as though all questions of armchair, traditional epistemology are already settled conclusively, with unanimity or even consensus. We still need to reason our way together to a better view of those issues.

  Ernest Sosa

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Views

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Colors close together on the color wheel are analogous and will make a calm room. Colors that are farther apart are complementary and add drama.

  David Bromstad

  Drama, Color, Together

  7 Copy quote

• When you're working with vibes the music comes right in. The blend is perfect. So to me it was never a mismatch. It was actually pretty complementary.

  Linda Perhacs

  Perfect, Vibes, Mismatch

  Source: pitchfork.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are members of a vast cosmic orchestra, in which each living instrument is essential to the complementary and harmonious playing of the whole.

  J. Boone

  Spiritual, Orchestra, Essentials

  7 Copy quote

• The role of the leader is to foster mutual respect and build a complementary team where each strength is made productive and each weakness irrelevant.

  Stephen Covey

  Team, Leader, Weakness

  Stephen R. Covey (1991). “Principle-centered leadership”, Free Press

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Order and creativity are complementary.

  Lewis Mumford

  Creativity, Order, Chaos

  7 Copy quote

• Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age. Its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience. People still need longer stuff, but they see the headline on Twitter or Facebook.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Character, Phones, People

  4 Copy quote

• People tend to marry people with similar-width noses, eyes similarly apart, with complementary immune systems.

  David Brooks

  Eye, People, Noses

  "David Brooks: From Spouses to Sofas, Emotions Tell Us What to Value". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. March 8, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other. Love is an echo in the feelings of a unity subsisting between two persons which is founded both on likeness and on complementary differences. Without the likeness there would be no attraction; without the challenge of the complementary differences there could not be the closer interweaving and the inextinguishable mutual interest which is the characteristic of all deeper relationships.

  Felix Adler

  Fashion, Love Is, Two

  "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• The complementary movement towards divine love is growth in humility which is the acceptence of the reality about ourselves, our own weakness and limitations.

  Thomas Keating

  Love, Humility, Acceptance

  44 Copy quote

• How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of one’s place in the cosmos, a relationship to that which extends beyond oneself. . . . Does scientific explanation of the world diminish its spiritual beauty? I think not. Science and spirituality are complementary, not conflicting; additive, not detractive. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades. (158-159)

  Michael Shermer

  Spiritual, Thinking, Doe

  10 Copy quote