Best Contradiction Proverbs
604 Contradiction quotes by 472 unique authors
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The very idea of an infinite in place would be a contradiction in terms, as a place must begin and continue in time.
— Swami Vivekananda
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There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.
— Swami Vivekananda
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This is a world of good and evil. Wherever there is good, evil follows, but beyond and behind all these manifestations, all these contradictions, the…
— Swami Vivekananda
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The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex. They've got to be processed in the…
— Mario Savio
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A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications…
— Clifford Irving
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I always feel that there are two choices for women. Either be totally confident about your non-size-zero body and say, 'I love what I look…
— Lena Dunham
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If by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the good and the…
— John Cowper Powys
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Fear is the contradiction of faith. Faith says, Whatever it is, it'll be okay because of God.
— James MacDonald
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A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal a…
— Lawrence Kushner
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We’re built of contradictions, all of us. It’s those opposing forces that give us strength, like an arch, each block pressing the next. Give me…
— Mark Lawrence
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Sport is something that does not matter, but is performed as if it did. In that contradiction lies its beauty
— Simon Barnes
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Most people assume that a muse is a creature of perfect beauty, poise and grace. Like the creatures from Greek mythology. They're wrong. In fact,…
— Kathleen Tessaro
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I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy
— Czeslaw Milosz
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A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life.
— Chaim Potok
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We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.
— Unknown Author
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We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us.
— Lisa Lutz
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When you get up, the night and day is a contradiction. But you get up at 4 a.m. — that first blush of blue is…
— Shekhar Kapur
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Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another.
— Alastair Reynolds
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We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express…
— Alexander Kluge
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No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny,…
— Elie Wiesel
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I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the other…
— Angela Davis
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We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.
— William Blake
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It is absolutely without contradiction that when women are encouraged to participate in the formal economies of their societies, the economy grows.
— Hillary Clinton
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Christianity is an old metaphysical fiction, stuffed with fables, contradictions and absurdities: it was spawned in the fevered imagination of the Orientals, and then spread…
— Frederick The Great
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There is no contradiction between true religion and science
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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