Contradictory Quotes

218 Contradictory quotes by 191 unique authors

Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big… — Robert Penn Warren
Yet, isn't it strange, isn't it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same… — Aidan Chambers
So you're trying to make her happy despite the fact that the reason she's unhappy in the first place is you," said Simon, not very… — Cassandra Clare
Reality the iconoclast once more. Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions.… — C.S. Lewis
I and you-We are infinate, rich, large, contradictory, living, breathing miracles-free human beings, children of God and the everlasting universe. That's what we do. — Robert Fulghum
Every second that passes is like a door that opens to allow in what has not yet happened, what we call the future, but, to… — Jose Saramago
They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as… — William Faulkner
Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? Others… — Alan Lightman
The position of the Atheist is a clear and reasonable one. I know nothing about ‘God’ and therefore I do not believe in Him or… — Annie Besant
You only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathematics,you learn; but when you are in… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a… — Andre Breton
But because me and myself, as you no doubt are well aware, we are going to die, my relation—and yours too—to the event of this… — Jacques Derrida
How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before Blows? How shall… — W. E. B. Du Bois
In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the… — Eckhart Tolle
The further on we go, the more meaning there is, but the less articulable. You live your life and the older you get- the more… — Gregory Maguire
It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory. — Rajneesh
She couldn't think of anyone else who remotely resembled him. He was complicated, almost contradictory in so many ways, yet simple, a strangely erotic combination.… — Nicholas Sparks
People who have drawn wealth into their lives used The Secret, whether consciously or unconsciously. They think thoughts of abundance and wealth, and they do… — Rhonda Byrne
I don't know who I am or who I was. I know it less than ever. I do and I don't identify myself with myself.… — Alberto Giacometti
History is tangled, messy, contradictory. But is where we are. — Eamon Duffy
If you have a faith, it is statistically overwhelmingly likely that it is the same faith as your parents and grandparents had. No doubt soaring… — Richard Dawkins
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary. — Niels Bohr
In their recently aborted struggle to inject Genesis literalism into science classrooms, fundamentalist groups followed their usual opportunistic strategy of arguing two contradictory sides of… — Stephen Jay Gould
Capitalism and socialism are two distinct patterns of social organization. Private control of the means of production and public control are contradictory notions and not… — Ludwig von Mises
Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must… — Gary Wolf

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