Contradiction Quotes · Page 9

Subjectivity is my middle name, a trick memory is my pack mule, and self-contradiction is my trusty old jackknife.

— Luc Sante

I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy

— Czeslaw Milosz

Aren't you an enigma wrapped in a thick coating of contradictions.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.

— William Empson

I'm very skeptical about everything. That's how I've always been.

— Denzel Curry

Maturity brings - among other things - the ability to sustain and survive enormous contradictions and disappointments.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.

— William James

Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.

— Simone Weil

I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is…

— Anonymous

We found ourselves wanting to hurry time along, which was not in the long run good for our health. Everybody was trapped…

— Joshua Ferris

“There are no logical contradictions in the Christian faith. If there were even one logical contradiction at the center of the Christian…

— Ronald Nash

That is the Mongolian creation myth: out of two different natures love is born. In contradiction, love grows in strength. In confrontation…

— Paulo Coelho

Many men go into the ministry not only for the power trip involved, but also so that they will never have to…

— Frank Zindler

I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty…

— Roger Nash Baldwin

Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies…

— Thomas Paine

Consciousness is a state in which a man knows all at once everything that he in general knows and in which he…

— G. I. Gurdjieff

He must also know evil, hate and bigotry as real phenomena, but he must see love as the greater force. He must…

— Leo Buscaglia

“Every symptom the ego makes involves a contradiction in terms, because the mind is split between the ego and the Holy Spirit,…

— Foundation for Inner Peace

I’ve known I was mostly gay ever since I can remember. I know it troubles many people for me to refer to…

— Caitlin Stasey

If it is true, as I have tried to show, that love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem…

— Erich Fromm

The besetting sin of able men is impatience of contradiction and of criticism. Even those who do their best to resist the…

— Thomas Huxley

I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on…

— Lance Armstrong

“One of the curious things about our educational system, I would note, is that the better trained you are in a discipline,…

— David Harvey

“Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I would say that I'm 98 percent skeptical, but the other 2 percent [is] open for the possibility of things.

— Nicolas Cage

I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.

— Thomas Hardy

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

— Anonymous

I think many people have contradictions to them and I love characters that deal with those contradictions.

— Giancarlo Esposito

I'm nothing if not a tangled, colorful ball of contradictions.

— Glennon Doyle Melton

To call a man evangelical who is not evangelistic is an utter contradiction.

— G. Campbell Morgan

There are no contradictions. If you find one, check your premises.

— Ayn Rand

Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.

— William E. Simon

The ability to break a loved one's heart is the essential contradiction in human relationships.

— Amy Dickinson

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

— Hunter S. Thompson

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

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

— Elton Trueblood

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

— Thomas Merton

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

— Marine Le Pen

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Friedrich Schiller