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title: "443 Contradictory Quotes by 370 authors"
description: "Browse 443 Contradictory quotes by 370 authors. Discover the best Contradictory sayings and thoughts."
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> [Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sydney-schanberg/contradictory-to-my-religion-i-think-is-journalism/)

[Sydney Schanberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sydney-schanberg/)

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> [ \[I am a\] contradictory and paradoxical man. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salvador-dali/i-am-a-contradictory-and-paradoxical-man/)

[Salvador Dali](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salvador-dali/)

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> [“Life itself is contradictory. Only death is consistent.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vera-caspary/life-itself-is-contradictory-only-death-is-consistent/)

[Vera Caspary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vera-caspary/)

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> [History is tangled, messy, contradictory. But is where we are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eamon-duffy/history-is-tangled-messy-contradictory-but-is-where-we-are/)

[Eamon Duffy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eamon-duffy/)

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> [Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niels-bohr/opposites-are-not-contradictory-but-complementary/)

[Niels Bohr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niels-bohr/)

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> [My father was a very contradictory man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-malkovich/my-father-was-a-very-contradictory-man/)

[John Malkovich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-malkovich/)

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> [Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-alvarez/literature-is-about-being-a-complex-contradictory-human-being/)

[Julia Alvarez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-alvarez/)

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> [Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nigella-lawson/emotion-is-messy-contradictory-and-true/)

[Nigella Lawson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nigella-lawson/)

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> [Despite the contradictory advice circulated in the late 90s, if you wanna be my lover, please do not get with my friends...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/despite-the-contradictory-advice-circulated-in-the-late-90s-if-you/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-lennox/one-realizes-after-a-long-time-that-actually-we-are-contradictory-all/)

[Annie Lennox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-lennox/)

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> [It is not that I love contradictions: life is contradictory. Existence itself is possible only through contradictions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/it-is-not-that-i-love-contradictions-life-is-contradictory-existence/)

[Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/)

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> [The nature of love is that it catches you off-guard, subjects you to rules you have never faced, some of them contradictory.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-doig/the-nature-of-love-is-that-it-catches-you-off-guard-subjects-you-to/)

[Ivan Doig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-doig/)

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> [“She rose slowly. She didn't want to go. She also rather resented staying.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-h-lawrence-2/she-rose-slowly-she-didn-t-want-to-go-she-also-rather-resented-staying/)

[D.H. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-h-lawrence-2/)

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> [Barack Obama's campaign of empty self-contradictory promises has apparently hoodwinked the state of Wyoming.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-foster-johnson/barack-obama-s-campaign-of-empty-self-contradictory-promises-has/)

[Charles Foster Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-foster-johnson/)

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> [Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory, Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-sparks/wandering-and-confused-lost-to-myself-ill-assorted-contradictory/)

[Nicholas Sparks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-sparks/)

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> [The creative person pays close attention to what appears discordant and contradictory... and is challenged by such irregularities.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-x-barron/the-creative-person-pays-close-attention-to-what-appears-discordant/)

[Frank X. Barron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-x-barron/)

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> [Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-wasserman/now-i-existed-solely-thanks-to-the-quantum-paradox-my-brain-a/)

[Robin Wasserman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-wasserman/)

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> [Reconsidering Happiness captures all the contradictory impulses of falling in and out of love-the lust and wanderlust, the contentment and restlessness, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-dalton/reconsidering-happiness-captures-all-the-contradictory-impulses-of/)

[John Dalton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-dalton/)

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> [We often think ourselves inconsistent creatures, when we are the furthest from it, and all the variety of shapes and contradictory appearances…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/we-often-think-ourselves-inconsistent-creatures-when-we-are-the/)

[Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-sterne/)

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> [I'm quite contradictory - a bit OCD, but quite untidy. I have piles of stuff everywhere, but they make sense to me.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kimberley-nixon/i-m-quite-contradictory-a-bit-ocd-but-quite-untidy-i-have-piles-of/)

[Kimberley Nixon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kimberley-nixon/)

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> [You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georgette-heyer/you-re-only-a-man-you-ve-not-our-gifts-i-can-tell-you-why-a-woman-can/)

[Georgette Heyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georgette-heyer/)

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> [“I am an inconsistent creature. Perhaps it is the pressure of my past, and not my own perverse mind, that has made…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soseki-natsume/i-am-an-inconsistent-creature-perhaps-it-is-the-pressure-of-my-past/)

[Sōseki Natsume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soseki-natsume/)

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> [Beautiful woman wrapped in chadors, with huge machine guns in their hands. Brilliant, shocking, amazingly contradictory images. They compelled me to deeply…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shirin-neshat/beautiful-woman-wrapped-in-chadors-with-huge-machine-guns-in-their/)

[Shirin Neshat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shirin-neshat/)

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> [I think my relationship with life has changed - I want to make more complex images than before. Complex in the sense…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/luis-gonzalez/i-think-my-relationship-with-life-has-changed-i-want-to-make-more/)

[Luis Gonzalez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/luis-gonzalez/)

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> [ We \[H&M\] believe that growth, profit and sustainability are not contradictory. Our ambition is to be a fair and profitable company, because… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-johan-persson/we-h-m-believe-that-growth-profit-and-sustainability-are-not/)

[Karl-Johan Persson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-johan-persson/)

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> [It has often been argued that absolute scepticism is self-contradictory; but this is a mistake: and even if it were not so,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-sanders-peirce/it-has-often-been-argued-that-absolute-scepticism-is-self/)

[Charles Sanders Peirce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-sanders-peirce/)

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> [As a composer you want to tell musicians two completely contradictory things. You want to say, "Play exactly what I wrote, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nico-muhly/as-a-composer-you-want-to-tell-musicians-two-completely-contradictory/)

[Nico Muhly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nico-muhly/)

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> [If Socialism, like all errors, contains some truth (which, moreover, the Supreme Pontiffs have never denied), it is based nevertheless on a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-pius-xi/if-socialism-like-all-errors-contains-some-truth-which-moreover-the/)

[Pope Pius XI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-pius-xi/)

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> [However contradictory the coroner's report — whether he pronounces Consumption or Loneliness or Suicide to be the cause of death — isn't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/however-contradictory-the-coroner-s-report-whether-he-pronounces/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [The source of Pyrrhonism comes from failing to distinguish between a demonstration, a proof and a probability. A demonstration supposes that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-michael-ramsay/the-source-of-pyrrhonism-comes-from-failing-to-distinguish-between-a/)

[Andrew Michael Ramsay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-michael-ramsay/)

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> [Over against any cognition, there is an unknown but knowable reality; but over against all possible cognition, there is only the self-contradictory.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-sanders-peirce/over-against-any-cognition-there-is-an-unknown-but-knowable-reality/)

[Charles Sanders Peirce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-sanders-peirce/)

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> [I think intelligence basically can be in a way defined by the possibility of having two opposite ideas living together and at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu/i-think-intelligence-basically-can-be-in-a-way-defined-by-the/)

[Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu/)

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> [I didn't have a perfect model, but I wanted to try to blend my own personal reflections and experiences with this broader…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barack-obama/i-didn-t-have-a-perfect-model-but-i-wanted-to-try-to-blend-my-own/)

[Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barack-obama/)

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> [I didn't believe in systems. Everything human was imperfect and ultimately absurd. What did I believe in then? In humor. In laughing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/i-didn-t-believe-in-systems-everything-human-was-imperfect-and/)

[Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/)

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> [The truth of literature and art has always been granted (if it was granted at all) as one of a "higher" order,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-marcuse/the-truth-of-literature-and-art-has-always-been-granted-if-it-was/)

[Herbert Marcuse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-marcuse/)

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> [The federal government, state governments will not do without that tax revenue from tobacco no matter what. I've always thought it was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rush-limbaugh/the-federal-government-state-governments-will-not-do-without-that-tax/)

[Rush Limbaugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rush-limbaugh/)

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> [ “Now, if the writers of these four books \[Gospels\] had gone into a court of justice to prove an alibi, (for it… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/now-if-the-writers-of-these-four-books-gospels-had-gone-into-a-court/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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> [The reflection and experience of many years have led me to consider the holy writings not only as the most authentic and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gouverneur-morris/the-reflection-and-experience-of-many-years-have-led-me-to-consider/)

[Gouverneur Morris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gouverneur-morris/)

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> [“The tangible and factual components of reality along with the intangible strands of memory and imagination constitute the framework that houses our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kilroy-j-oldster/the-tangible-and-factual-components-of-reality-along-with-the/)

[Kilroy J. Oldster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kilroy-j-oldster/)

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> [However, displayed right alongside all the Confederate flag paraphernalia is a bunch of American flag merch – American flag place mats, patriotic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-vowell/however-displayed-right-alongside-all-the-confederate-flag/)

[Sarah Vowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-vowell/)

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                        "text": "As a composer you want to tell musicians two completely contradictory things. You want to say, \"Play exactly what I wrote, but bring your own thing to it.\" In a lot of ways they feel like opposites, but in a sense, my job is to cajole or encourage decisions that I approve of.",
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                        "text": "If Socialism, like all errors, contains some truth (which, moreover, the Supreme Pontiffs have never denied), it is based nevertheless on a theory of human society peculiar to itself and irreconcilable with true Christianity. Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are contradictory terms; no one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true socialist.",
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                        "text": "However contradictory the coroner's report — whether he pronounces Consumption or Loneliness or Suicide to be the cause of death — isn't it plain how the true artist-seer actually dies? I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own sacred human conscience.",
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                        "text": "The source of Pyrrhonism comes from failing to distinguish between a demonstration, a proof and a probability. A demonstration supposes that the contradictory idea is impossible; a proof of fact is where all the reasons lead to belief, without there being any pretext for doubt; a probability is where the reasons for belief are strongerthan those for doubting.",
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                        "text": "I didn't have a perfect model, but I wanted to try to blend my own personal reflections and experiences with this broader canvas to see how a lot of the narratives we have about economy and foreign policy got stuck. Because we have these categories of liberal, conservative, free marketer, open government - all these stereotypes about our politics and the categories we try to put things in are inadequate to this sort of complex, ambiguous, sometimes contradictory experience we have as ordinary people and that I have as an elected official.",
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                        "text": "I didn't believe in systems. Everything human was imperfect and ultimately absurd. What did I believe in then? In humor. In laughing at systems, at people, at one's self. In laughing even at one's need to laugh all the time. In seeing life as contradictory, many-sided, various, funny, tragic, and with moments of outrageous beauty. In seeing life as a fruitcake, including delicious plums and bad peanuts, but meant to be devoured hungrily all the same because you couldn't feast on the plums without also sometimes being poisoned by the peanuts.",
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                        "text": "The truth of literature and art has always been granted (if it was granted at all) as one of a \"higher\" order, which should not and indeed did not disturb the order of business. What has changed in the contemporary period is the difference between the two orders and their truths. The absorbent power of society depletes the artistic dimension by assimilating its antagonistic contents. In the realm of culture, the new totalitarianism manifests itself precisely in a harmonizing pluralism, where the most contradictory works and truths peacefully coexist in indifference.",
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                        "text": "The reflection and experience of many years have led me to consider the holy writings not only as the most authentic and instructive in themselves, but as the clue to all other history. They tell us what man is, and they alone tell us why he is what he is: a contradictory creature that seeing and approving of what is good, pursues and performs what is evil. All of private and public life is there displayed. ... From the same pure fountain of wisdom we learn that vice destroys freedom; that arbitrary power is founded on public immorality.",
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