Contradiction Quotes · Page 10

One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The very idea of an infinite in place would be a contradiction in terms, as a place must begin and continue in…

— Swami Vivekananda

Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to what we know of nature.

— Sylvia Fraser

A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.

— David Sheff

If opposites attract...then we're a contradiction. Made for each other.

— Anonymous

“Feminists who accept the claim made in The Book of Genesis, and, that God is a he, need to make their minds…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Age helps one to acquire some of the perspectives necessary to create harmony among apparent contradictions.

— Roberto Assagioli

Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to…

— Elia Kazan

The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“This man—this impeccable, mortal creature. A figurine on the stage of life, outwardly flawless yet perfectly destructible. What hidden forces animated this…

— Z.K. Kostka

When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you…

— Haruki Murakami

Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing…

— Swami Vivekananda

Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The…

— Helen Keller

Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.

— Vernon Howard

“Brainstorm and make impossible possible. Make contradictions realistic. As if a contradiction is the other name of impossibility? Or simply impossible when…

— Priyavrat Thareja

"Keep it 100" means keeping it 100 percent real. It comes from the expression ... "keeping it real," which means you are…

— Larry Wilmore

“There is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity. But the…

— Anonymous

It’s time to put away our fairytales, all of them, and assume our responsibilities, the adult responsibilities that begin with adult knowledge.…

— Lierre Keith

Knowledge is a continuous fabric, in which ideas are connected to other ideas. Reason-free zones, in which people can assert arbitrary beliefs…

— Steven Pinker

Man is an intellectual animal, and therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the…

— William Hazlitt

Tormented by conflicting feelings, I appealed to reason ; and it is reason which, amid so many dogmatic contradictions, now forces the…

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

I don't think anyone now really understands the planetisation of mankind, really understands the new world order emerging through all this period…

— William Irwin Thompson

I was looking for someplace to store all the things I was feeling - the friction, the contradictions, the unmerciful truth -…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any.

— Thomas Paine

“A paradox is a truth in absolute defiance of the instant powers of logic to communicate it.”

— Raheel Farooq

You cannot have humane Zionism, it is a contradiction in terms.

— Israel Shahak

“His actions were a total contradiction of what thinks , in that way its a way hard to believe him...”

— aks

I don't like PG-13 horror movies. I think they're a contradiction in terms.

— Clive Barker

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.

— William Blake

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

— Blaise Pascal

There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.

— Evan Parker

We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved ...

— Thomas Carlyle

Praise is a contradiction of pride. Pride says 'looks at me,' but praise longs for people to see Jesus.

— Matt Redman

How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

— George Bernard Shaw

Paradox implies that stating a contradiction disposes of it.

— Mason Cooley

We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us.

— Lisa Lutz

There is in every truth a wise saying, and in every contradiction, two wise sayings.

— Robert Breault

“Together, we form a necessary paradox; not a senseless contradiction.”

— Criss Jami