Contradiction Quote by Henry Adams

As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour and ingenuity…

— C. D. Broad

“When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of their limited experience…

— Maria Edgeworth

You can't take contradiction away. Part of the fun of it is that the contradiction never really quite goes away.

— Paul Schrader

Contradictions are fun.

— Samuel Ervin Beam

Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and…

— Gottfried Leibniz

In general, I like contradictions and complex situations.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

“Perhaps some of my hearers this evening may have occasionally heard it stated of me that I am rather apt to contradict myself. I…

— John Ruskin

One of the surest ways to avoid even getting near false doctrine is to choose to be simple in our teaching.

— Henry B. Eyring

Contradictions have always existed in the soul of [individuals]. But it is only when we prefer analysis to silence that they become a constant…

— Thomas Merton

Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking…

— Friedrich Nietzsche