Contradiction Quotes · Page 7

“It is a contradiction this creek- a hundred thousand years old but renewed with each rainfall.”

— Robert R. McCammon

Love resolves all contradictions. Without love, man cannot make sense of his existence.

— Peter Deunov

There were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion

— Errol Flynn

Fear is the contradiction of faith. Faith says, Whatever it is, it'll be okay because of God.

— James MacDonald

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

— Blaise Pascal

A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.

— Max Beerbohm

The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.

— Gustave Flaubert

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that…

— Douglas Adams

When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon, than common sense; or, in other words, they…

— Baron d'Holbach

“The only reason why there's a lot people living in contradiction; they aren't in the right time, right situation, and right place.”

— Innasafa

If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off…

— William James

The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country's injustices and contradictions down on…

— Adam Hochschild

I happen to be unfortunately temperamental. No, my temperament is also, what you describe to rainfalls, the will of society, to combat…

— Wole Soyinka

“Jesus from the moment he first appears in Galilee is a sign of contradiction, fomenting revolution through telling the truth about the…

— Megan McKenna

Whatever of goodness emanates from the soul, gathers its soft halo in the eyes; and if the heart be a lurking place…

— Arthur Frederick Saunders

Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality,…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Call it the Darwinian contradiction. We come down from the trees and walk upright and what do we get for it? Foot…

— Jonathan Rosen

what are you looking for? There is no Truth. There's only action, action obeying a million different impulses, ephemeral action, action subjected…

— Blaise Cendrars

In reality, anybody who's a woman knows that you've got your good days and bad days, just like anybody else. I've been…

— Jessalyn Gilsig

To see the universe as it is, you must step beyond the net [the matrix]. It is not hard to do so,…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“It is a contradiction in terms and ideas, to call anything a revelation that comes to us at second-hand, either verbally or…

— Thomas Paine

It is art's task to make manifest the contradictions of Being

— Sergei Eisenstein

It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.

— Naguib Mahfouz

I am a walking contradiction that's found consistency consuming everything, all without producing sustenance.

— As I Lay Dying

There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

— J. L. Austin

"Religious Socialism," "Christian Socialism," are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.

— Pope Pius XI

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

— Simone Weil

Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another.

— Alastair Reynolds

Your desires will very often be contradictory and so will your strengths. All of our contradictions make us whole.

— Danielle LaPorte

Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it's popular, it's not culture.

— Vivienne Westwood

“The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms.”

— Barry Unsworth

I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I love that contradiction of being feminine but playing in the boys' treehouse. My whole life's been like that.

— Gwen Stefani

We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.

— David Brion Davis

In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.

— Gore Vidal

Kant thinks we can show that there is no contradiction in supposing we are free.

— Allen W. Wood

In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death

— Gore Vidal