Contradiction Quotes

Art can contradict Science.

— Austin Osman Spare

I'm a natural born skeptic.

— Mike Flanagan

I am a living contradiction.

— Ekta Kapoor

Love is a contradiction.

— Cassandra Clare

I'm a walking contradiction.

— Jason Momoa

I am the skeptic of skeptics.

— Taylor Caldwell

Man, I'm sick of doubt.

— Jim Morrison

“I have doubts”

— John Patrick Shanley

“He's a contradiction and that's why he's so perfect.”

— Poppet

My lyrics are a big pile of contradictions,

— Kurt Cobain

In the contradiction lies the hope.

— Bertolt Brecht

Physicians are like kings- They brook no contradiction.

— John Webster

Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality.

— Albert Camus

An Italian university is a contradiction in terms.

— Indro Montanelli

“I’m a man full of doubts and I doubt that will change.”

— Atticus

I am sometimes more doubt than man.

— Cecil Palmer

The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms.

— Ayn Rand

Avoid contradiction. Clear institutional identity helps give you the competitive edge.

— Marty Sklar

“Without contradiction, there would be no life, no movement, no progress, a deadly slumber of all forces.”

— Schelling

I'm not interested in a good man's life. I'm interested in contradiction.

— Cillian Murphy

“Touch but don't stroke. Eat but don't lick. Desire but don't lust. Sanity is yesterday's child.”

— Iva Hotko

We're all living contradictions, trying to survive in a world filled with hypocrites

— Eric Jerome Dickey

I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.

— Khalil Gibran

To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions

— George Orwell

My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is…

— J. M. Coetzee

If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is…

— Saint Augustine

Revolutionary practice in any field of human existence develops by itself if one comprehends the contradictions in every new process; it consists…

— Wilhelm Reich

There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.

— Arthur Miller

Contradiction is the heart and soul of character and drama. You're always looking for it. I loved her so much I hit…

— Paul Schrader

Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little…

— Francoise Sagan

No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be…

— Elie Wiesel

Our generation is wonderful generation, full of wonder. It's very hard to find an example of it in all our history. Composed…

— Abraham Isaac Kook

The thing that [the Senate and the House] don't realize is that everyone wants them to come from beyond that contradiction so…

— Jon Stewart

“My soul is chaos, how can it be at all? There is everything in me: search and you will find out. I…

— Emil Cioran

Institutionalized desublimation thus appears to be an aspect of the "conquest of transcendence" achieved by the one-dimensional society. Just as this society…

— Herbert Marcuse

“The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can't all be correct. And what if all of…

— Carl Sagan

There is a truth in Schopenhauer’s view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

These are the few ways we can practice humility: To speak as little as possible of one's self. To mind one's own…

— Mother Teresa

I'm part of the consumer culture... I'm just using the space I am given to express something that is out of the…

— Michel Gondry

The pictures that were coming from Vietnam were showing us what was really happening on the ground level. It was in contradiction…

— James Nachtwey