Contradiction Quotes · Page 6

Contradiction: stubbornness versus stupidity.

— Anonymous

“Love is a contradiction... Jace to Clary”

— Cassandra Clare

I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.

— David James Duncan

“An opulent priest is a contradiction.”

— Victor Hugo

All concord's born of contraries.

— Ben Jonson

Life can't die. It's a contradiction.

— Ruby Dee

Paradox likes contradictions with exits.

— Mason Cooley

Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I can bear it.

— Walt Whitman

The other guys are selling certainty. Not me. I'm on the corner with doubt.

— Bill Maher

A healing journey into the inner conflicts and contradictions that separate spirit from self.

— Armand DiMele

The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.

— Mason Cooley

There is no inherent contradiction between being right-wing and being intelligent.

— Peter Morgan

If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.

— Erwin Schrodinger

I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.

— Pierre Bayle

The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.

— Aldous Huxley

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of…

— Roland Barthes

Some people spell "good" with two o's and some people spell it with one... and there shouldn't be a contradiction between that.

— Assata Shakur

Once it has been perceived that the division of labour is the essence of society, nothing remains of the antithesis between individual…

— Ludwig von Mises

The discrepancy or contradiction is the entire story. And being the entire story, it by itself discredits the entire twenty-six volumes of…

— Vincent Bugliosi

The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“There's a precise moment when we reject contradiction. This moment of choice is the lie we will live by. What is dearest…

— Anne Michaels

Humans live in a world where the weak are dominant. This is a terrible insult to our animal nature, a sort of…

— Muriel Barbery

We waste a lot of time, but when death come for us we will beg for another minute, and that prove the…

— Tarek Soloman

The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humour and in an outburst of liberty and…

— Joan Miro

“When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both…

— Madeleine L'Engle

There is only one essential difference between consciousness and dreaming, and that is sensory input. Your experience is a dream, so is…

— Stephen LaBerge

Why can't you like me?" he said, his voice breaking. His scent steamed then, hot and heady with a welter of contradictions:…

— Ilsa J. Bick

Images work on so many different levels. As a writer you feel them, try not to get in their way or narrow…

— Laurie Sheck

But I always liked the fact that you get these totally unacceptable images, but they're taken by a really expensive photographer, with…

— Damien Hirst

I absolutely fell in love with Moscow. It's one of those places where you can't help but trip over history at every…

— Daniel Silva

A perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Life itself is a state of continuous struggle between ourselves and everything outside. Every…

— Swami Vivekananda

it is impossible for any mind of common honesty not to be revolted by the contradictions in their principles and practice. They…

— Frances Trollope

I always look for contradiction in a character.

— Rebecca Hall

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.

— Muriel Spark

Lies are an absence of facts and, in many cases, a direct contradiction of them.

— Daniel Levitin

Wizard's Ninth Rule A contradiction can not exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole.

— Terry Goodkind

We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding.

— Edward Teller

“The illusion is reality. The only contradiction is the observer.”

— Lionel Suggs

“Imagine the wizened quality of a life blanched of contradiction and double standard. p 44”

— Michael Perry