Contradictory Quotes
218 Contradictory quotes by 191 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.
— Pat Conroy
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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