Contradiction Quotes · Page 7

No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge.

— Ayn Rand

“I see no contradiction between my search and personal happiness. -BRIDA”

— Paulo Coelho

It’s important not to be embarrassed by your past. The contradictions are part of what we are.

— Richey Edwards

The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.

— Mason Cooley

There is no inherent contradiction between being right-wing and being intelligent.

— Peter Morgan

We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction.

— Anonymous

You can't take contradiction away. Part of the fun of it is that the contradiction never really quite goes away.

— Paul Schrader

I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything...

— Thomas Huxley

It seems like a contradiction, but the shy person who is a performer actually does make sense, because in a way, when…

— Paul Merton

If you would listen, sir, in the sense of being aware of your conflicts and contradictions without forcing them into any particular…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I think I can say without fear of contradiction that we could generate sorties at an extremely high level and bring very,…

— Bill Vaughan

[Bob] Dylan thus deserves the Nobel Prize, not just for "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," as the Nobel…

— Jay Michaelson

I say this with no fear of contradiction. Jonas Barnes is absolutely, positively the funniest stand-up comic I have ever seen. Of…

— Danny Bonaduce

I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side…

— Angela Davis

Civil marriage is a very serious problem. I think that even the religious understands that we must look for some kind of…

— Avigdor Lieberman

It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough…

— Stanley Kunitz

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

When you get up, the night and day is a contradiction. But you get up at 4 A.M. That first blush of…

— Shekhar Kapur

I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that…

— Julian Baggini

"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

The other guys are selling certainty. Not me. I'm on the corner with doubt.

— Bill Maher

A healing journey into the inner conflicts and contradictions that separate spirit from self.

— Armand DiMele

The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.

— Aldous Huxley

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of…

— Roland Barthes

Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.

— Muriel Spark

I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.

— Pierre Bayle

If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.

— Erwin Schrodinger

I'm not interested in a good man's life. I'm interested in contradiction.

— Cillian Murphy

“Touch but don't stroke. Eat but don't lick. Desire but don't lust. Sanity is yesterday's child.”

— Iva Hotko

We're all living contradictions, trying to survive in a world filled with hypocrites

— Eric Jerome Dickey

I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.

— Khalil Gibran

To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions

— George Orwell

The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms.

— Ayn Rand

Avoid contradiction. Clear institutional identity helps give you the competitive edge.

— Marty Sklar

“Without contradiction, there would be no life, no movement, no progress, a deadly slumber of all forces.”

— Schelling

I open my eyes To my own mistake I see all around me Hands getting raized And Questions remain Silent...

— Tom Folsom