Contradictory Quotes

218 Contradictory quotes by 191 unique authors

I am going to be contradictory to myself many times for the simple reason that I am trying to bring all the religions to a… — Rajneesh
Religion is a complex and often contradictory force in our world. It fosters hope and comfort but also doubt and guilt. It creates both community… — Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye and disappears in its own brightness.… — Alice Oswald
I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange. — Pat Conroy
Beliefs about how lying looks are plentiful and often contradictory: depending on whom you choose to believe, liars can be detected because they fidget a… — Robin Marantz Henig
The essential problems remain the same... The kids I write about are asking for the same things I wanted. They want two contradictory things. They… — E L Konigsburg
It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality… — Thomas Mann
And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle… — Adam Clarke
God has levels of willing and delighting. He wills and delights in things in different ways so that approval and disapproval can coexist without being… — John Piper
It is clear to me that people often want incompatible things. They want danger and excitement on the one hand, and safety and security on… — Theodore Dalrymple
INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime. The… — Ambrose Bierce
Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or woman knows the answer to every question, there… — Graham Greene
For my own part, my belief in the perfection of the Deity will not permit me to believe that a book so manifestly obscure, disorderly,… — Thomas Paine
Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to… — Thomas Paine
All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers… — Ralph Ellison
The 7 Funniest Contradictory Words: 1. Clearly Misunderstood, 2. Exact Estimate, 3. Small Crowd, 4. Act Naturally, 5. Found Missing, 6. Fully Empty, 7. Happily… — Pacifiersucker
The idea of it is that these kids are all pacifists but have this obsession with guns, so it's a bit contradictory in the subject… — Jamie Bell
I have wanted to act since I was three and that is what I hunger for. I want to play roles that are as diverse… — Natascha Mcelhone

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