Contradictory Quotes

218 Contradictory quotes by 191 unique authors

Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradictory. — Ann Voskamp
Illnesses which occur because of physical causes should be treated by doctors with medical remedies; those which are due to spiritual causes disappear through spiritual… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
One could think of a person who seems to have two opposing and contradictory sides to his personality; but it turns out that in the… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo
When you talk about what you want and why you want it, there's usually less resistance within you than when you talk about what you… — Esther Hicks
Maybe time is nothing at all like a straight line. Perhaps it's shaped like a twisted doughnut. But for tens of thousands of years, people… — Haruki Murakami
It's about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy and how it changed the world, but… — Daniel Libeskind
Philosophy arises from an unusually obstinate attempt to arrive at real knowledge. What passes for knowledge in ordinary life suffers from three defects: it is… — Bertrand Russell
You can't find intimacy-you can't find home-when you're always hiding behind masks. Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of… — Junot Diaz
When faced with a loss, it is no use trying to recover what has gone. On the other hand, a great space has been opened… — Paulo Coelho
The message about sex and relationships that she had gotten as a child... was confused, contradictory. Sex was for men, and marriage, like lifeboats, was… — Carrie Fisher
Everything that is contradictory creates life — Salvador Dali
The standard of the world, and the standard of the Lord Jesus, are indeed widely different. They are more than different. They are flatly contradictory… — J C Ryle
Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer degenerates into questionable… — Henri Nouwen
If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection — Plato
Agnosticism is epistemologically self-contradictory on its own assumptions because its claim to make no assertion about ultimate reality rests upon a most comprehensive assertion about… — Cornelius Van Til
I thought I was going to die. I was a teenager. It was the hardest thing I’d ever gone through. It’d be contradictory if I… — Nicki Minaj
I know why I make films -cinema is a mode of expression that allows you to express all the nuances of a thing while including… — Catherine Breillat
Trouble comes not because we have taken any wrong step but because we are in a complex and contradictory world. — T. B. Joshua
I have devoted 30 years of research to how creative people live and work, to make more understandable the mysterious process by which they come… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
With so many contradictory renditions of the biblical text, the public has lost confidence that we can actually know what the Bible says. It is… — Leland Ryken
To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self. — William Wordsworth
U.S News: You criticize the Miranda ruling, which gives suspects the right to have a lawyer present before police questioning. Shouldn't people, who may be… — Edwin Meese
Usually naive interviewers hover between two mutually contradictory convictions: one, that a text we call creative develops almost instantaneously in the mystic heat of inspirational… — Umberto Eco
The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-sat-isfied man. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is, exists… — Simone de Beauvoir

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