Contradiction Quotes · Page 13

I'm a walking contradiction on so many levels. I'm gay, black, and a Christian.

— Tituss Burgess

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.

— William Blake

It is a contradiction to be a true Christian and not humble.

— Richard Baxter

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

— Czeslaw Milosz

Take the road to contradiction, it'll lead you, I promise, to the palace of wisdom.

— Frank Lentricchia

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

— Luc Sante

Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction.

— Italo Svevo

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

— Simone Weil

I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain ending -…

— William Kentridge

It was not simply out of a spirit of contradiction that I exposed a light source to magnetic forces. The idea came…

— Pieter Zeeman

Here, fire turns into water; Here, the dancing of the rain declares the sun. There's no opposition in existence, no contradiction; Everything…

— Anonymous

As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kid s.

— Delia Ephron

Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning…

— Zora Neale Hurston

When we accept all of life's contradictions, when we can comfortably flow between the banks of pleasure and pain, experiencing them both…

— Deepak Chopra

I am, like anybody else, full of contradictions and personality traits, and I don't know which ones to speak from as a…

— Andy Daly

My whole childhood was about being in the garden. It wasn't really a religious place to me. The love I felt there...…

— Rula Jebreal

The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because…

— Emile M. Cioran

I'm a Christian. I believe that greatness has to do with the quality of love shown to the least of thy brethren…

— Cornel West

I don't know how you bridge that contradiction, but I felt that Barack Obama was sincere. It didn't feel like a line…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“No private detective looks like a private detective. That's one of the first rules of private detection." "But if no private detective…

— Douglas Adams

You are really in search of yourself, without knowing it. You are love-longing for the love-worthy, the perfect lovable. Due to ignorance…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I…

— Chris Ofili

I did not share the enthusiasm of certain politicians for the National Front leader, it was because I had noticed, in the…

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

There is the "you" that people see and then there is the "rest of you". Take some time and craft a picture…

— Brennan Manning

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

— William James

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— William Empson

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

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

— Denzel Curry

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

— Nicolas Cage

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

— Giancarlo Esposito

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

— Thomas Hardy

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

— Glennon Doyle Melton

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

— Amy Dickinson

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

— William E. Simon

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

— Ayn Rand

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

— G. Campbell Morgan

To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our…

— Thomas Browne

People are saying, "Oh my God, Saudi Arabia has changed." It's a contradiction. Do you want us to lead, or do you…

— Adel al-Jubeir