Contradiction Quotes · Page 11

“In these creations, life and symbolic value are not in contradiction: they intensify each other.”

— Victor Hugo

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.

— Jim Jarmusch

To have a beautiful sandy beach in Scotland seems like such a contradiction.

— Mary McCartney

“Do what you will, this life's a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.”

— William Blake

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

— Robert R. McCammon

Rose, oh pure contradiction, joy of being No-one's sleep under so many lids.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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

“Reason quite properly rejects contradiction, but rationalism abhors mystery, which every heresy attempts in its own way to resolve.”

— Michael S. Horton

These eyes have seen no conviction. Just lies and more contradiction. So tell me what would you say I'd say it's time…

— Sum 41

We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the…

— Thomas Merton

The contradictions the mind comes up against, these are the only realities, the criterion of the real. There is no contradiction in…

— Simone Weil

This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come…

— Mikhail Bakunin

The heavens, with their everlasting faithfulness, look down on no sadder contradiction than the sluggard and the slattern in their prayers.

— James Martineau

Obviously, anyone in contradiction with authority must possess equivalent knowledge and additional fact in order to sustain his argument.

— Samuel Homola

You can always find contradictions and hope, in hopeless circumstances, and a sense of redemption in somebody who makes the same mistake,…

— Chris Bauer

Remember us in your prayers that we grow not weary in well doing. It is hard to work for years with pure…

— David Livingstone

It was a week after Donald Trump had won. And initially he was still optimistic. He felt that things would be OK…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I'm a paradox. I want to be happy, but I think things that make me sad. I'm lazy, yet I'm ambitious. I…

— Anonymous

In drawing an inference or conclusion from facts proved, regard must always be had to the nature of the particular case, and…

— Tony Abbott

Maybe it's just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it's always going to be…

— Bjork

There is no contradiction between technology and spirit. There is no contradiction between the search for intellectual integration and understanding and the…

— Terence McKenna

The most common thing that real reporters say to me is, "I wish I could say what you say." What I don't…

— Stephen Colbert

The very design of the gospel doth tend to self-abasing; and the work of grace is begun and carried on in humiliation.…

— Richard Baxter

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

— Blaise Pascal

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

— James MacDonald

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

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

— Peter Deunov

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

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

— As I Lay Dying

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

— Naguib Mahfouz

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

— Sergei Eisenstein

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

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

— Simone Weil

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

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

— Barry Unsworth