Contradiction Quotes · Page 7

At a bare minimum, understanding entails being able to detect an internal contradiction: a paradox.

— William Poundstone

“I'm a beautiful mess of contradiction, A chaotic display of imperfection.”

— Sai Marie Johnson

You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.

— Galileo Galilei

“How many contradictions! Eh! If I loaded my wagon all on the same side, I'd tumble it over.”

— Remy de Gourmont

Love is such a contradiction. He does the things that hurt her and yet she continues to love him.

— Raghib Clitso

Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

self-possession is the ability to face without fear life in all its contradictions.

— Vivian Gornick

Individual character is in the right that is in strict consistence with itself. Self-contradiction is the only wrong.

— Friedrich Schiller

Contradictions if well understood and managed can spark off the fires of invention. Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left…

— Chinua Achebe

There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

I think you have to live inside your contradictions and find a way to accept that that's the human condition - to…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

Yoga and Vipassana are the two most time tested ancient techniques for keeping the body, mind and spirit in harmony and in…

— Amit Ray

It's fiction's job to express how it feels to be living now, and it's a complex feeling, full of contradiction. To me…

— Michael Helm

As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and…

— Amy Waldman

Which path do you intend to take, Nell?' said the Constable, sounding very interested. 'Conformity or rebellion?' Neither one. Both ways are…

— Neal Stephenson

“To most anarchists, the advocacy of freedom on Earth while bowing to a heavenly tyrant (no matter how imaginary) seems an insupportable…

— Chaz Bufe

“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to…

— G.K. Chesterton

This (functional - E.W.) language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by substituting images for…

— Herbert Marcuse

How can you have in our country that is based upon liberality and liberation, be so anti-liberal. That's toxic waste to our…

— Jesse Jackson

That it is not same-gender relationships that are destroying marriage. What is actually destroying marriage is high unemployment, incarceration, a lack of…

— Otis Moss III

Hindu fundamentalism is a contradiction in terms, since Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals; there is no such thing as a Hindu…

— Shashi Tharoor

As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's…

— Haruki Murakami

One of the biggest contradictions in self-proclaimed open-mindedness is to say that we're all one but when a true bigot comes around…

— Criss Jami

I think the other side of this is that while the contradictions matter, one of the things that you cannot lose sight…

— Henry Giroux

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mind forever turns on the lathe of its own contradictions.

— James Lileks

Massive immigration brings with it cultures that are sometimes in contradiction with our values.

— Marine Le Pen

A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I think George Washington owned guns. I've never seen any contradiction with that.

— Hunter S. Thompson

I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity ... I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can.

— Thomas Merton

“Contradiction is the perfect evidence, he (Lincoln) thought, of human fallibility.”

— Elton Trueblood

“Attorney ethics is a contradiction in terms, and its nonexistence is well documented.”

— Jarod Kintz

I'm not a Jesus freak, I'm not a satan worshipper. I'm a contradiction, a juxtaposition.

— Tairrie B

“Tough on the outside, but fragile when you got close. A walking contradiction.”

— Nancy Naigle

Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being.

— Ananda Coomaraswamy

I was a theater geek, and I was a surly cheerleader, and that's really kind of a contradiction.

— Natalie Zea

We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.

— George Santayana

“You seem to be in a state of such absolute contradiction that I would not be surprised if your face tore in…

— Mary-Jean Harris

One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.

— Barry Lopez

It's funny. Maria Elena and I, we are meant for each other and not meant for each other, it's a contradiction.

— Woody Allen