Best Contradiction Thoughts
604 Contradiction quotes by 472 unique authors
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All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I struggled to resolve…
— Yukio Mishima
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There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.
— Evan Parker
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Many of my sharpest critics have decided to take a position of ignoring me - because they feel that by attacking me, they would draw…
— Bruce Bartlett
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India is more than a sum of its contradictions, any truism about India can be contradicted with another truism. There is no fixed stereotype. But…
— Shashi Tharoor
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I had come to the conclusion a long time ago that there was no escape from the labyrinth of contradictions in which we live except…
— P D Ouspensky
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The discrepancy or contradiction is the entire story. And being the entire story, it by itself discredits the entire twenty-six volumes of the Warren Commission.…
— Vincent Bugliosi
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It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.
— Neil Postman
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Angry contradiction of the patriarch is not creativity; it's delinquency calling for attention. Difference for the sake of difference is as empty an achievement as…
— Robert McKee
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Salt is the only rock directly consumed by man. It corrodes but preserves, desiccates but is wrested from the water. It has fascinated man for…
— Margaret Visser
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What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.
— Paul Haggis
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We are told dogmatically that Evolution is an established fact; but we are never told who has established it, and by what means. We are…
— Wolfgang Smith
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Everything Brecht wrote—plays, dialogues, and poetry—was his attempt to clarify the inner contradictions not only of the capitalism and fascism of his times, but also…
— Richard Foreman
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It’s important not to be embarrassed by your past. The contradictions are part of what we are.
— Richey Edwards
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Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all…
— Donna J. Haraway
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Take the road to contradiction, it'll lead you, I promise, to the palace of wisdom.
— Frank Lentricchia
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You need contradictions to make an ideal.
— Alex Shakar
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There stands no contradiction between giving voice to legitimate anxiety and at the same time, as and when exchange of fire commences, looking to the…
— Charles Kennedy
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The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer. Centuries ago, when some…
— Heinz Pagels
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Your desires will very often be contradictory and so will your strengths. All of our contradictions make us whole.
— Danielle LaPorte
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An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may be mistaken; it may involve…
— Frances Wright
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Our generation is wonderful generation, full of wonder. It's very hard to find an example of it in all our history. Composed of contradictions —…
— Abraham Isaac Kook
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I do know without fear of contradiction what the definition of life is and it is 12 words long. 'Life is defined by how much…
— Keith Olbermann
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The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I felt that if…
— Godfrey Reggio
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Remember us in your prayers that we grow not weary in well doing. It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all…
— David Livingstone
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He who died for us, and Whom we ought to copy, did more for us than we can do for any one else. He endured…
— David Livingstone
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