Best 256 quotes in «contradiction quotes» category

It’s important not to be embarrassed by your past. The contradictions are part of what we are.

It was so much easier to be angry. Being angry made him feel strong, even though-- and this contradiction did nothing to diminish his anger-- he was angry only because his position was so weak.

I wrote to make sense out of all the contradictions I experienced and to deal with the pain and loss I was undergoing.

It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education.

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

Kant thinks we can show that there is no contradiction in supposing we are free.

Jesus said that I am the only way. So it is illogical to say all religions are true, but it is not illogical to say all religions are false. All religion could be false but they can't all be true because there are direct logical contradictions.

Leadership without mutual trust is a contradiction in terms.

Many men go into the ministry not only for the power trip involved, but also so that they will never have to be interrupted or contradicted.

Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.

Like the rest of us, Tom Paulin is a bundle of contradictions. At its finest, his work is brave, adventurous, original and wonderfully idiosyncratic.

Love is a contradiction.

Man can never stand still. He must find solutions to this contradiction, and ever better solutions to the extent to which reality enables him.

Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.

Love resolves all contradictions. Without love, man cannot make sense of his existence.

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

Moderate Islam? That's a contradiction. It's going to be a long time before we see a new Koran, an equivalent to the New Testament. Attacks don't happen in the name of Buddhism or Christianity; nor do homosexuals get beaten up, as happens daily in Amsterdam.

Massive immigration brings with it cultures that are sometimes in contradiction with our values.

Maturity brings - among other things - the ability to sustain and survive enormous contradictions and disappointments.

Millions of Christians can and do go through life attending church, listening to sermons, reciting the creeds and never confront the seeming contradictions, redaction and myths passed off as verifiable history.

Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to what we know of nature.

One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.

No legislative, administrative or judicial activity in the Hong Kong SAR is allowed to contradict the Basic Law, let alone to go against the Basic Law.

No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?

Physicians are like kings- They brook no contradiction.

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

Paradox implies that stating a contradiction disposes of it.

Paradox likes contradictions with exits.

Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.

People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction

Rose, oh pure contradiction, joy of being No-one's sleep under so many lids.

Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.

Really, life is full of contradictions. Life is messy.

Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes, Are something more than fictions.

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject, but all the contradictions within, and lets the reader draw his own conclusions.

Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.

Some people spell "good" with two o's and some people spell it with one... and there shouldn't be a contradiction between that.

So, this is how it's become? This is how I've become? A walking contradiction? I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it's like I don't know what to do with it, I don't know how to be a normal person anymore.

The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse.

Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction.

The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous. Tell an English cottager that the belfries of Swedish churches are crimson, and his own white steeple furnishes him with a contradiction.

The best paradoxes raise questions about what kinds of contradictions can occur-what species of impossibilities are possible.

The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.

Take the road to contradiction, it'll lead you, I promise, to the palace of wisdom.

The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality - without exploiting them for fun and profit

The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.

The heart of man is made to reconcile the most glaring contradictions.

The invention of the concept of sustainable human development and that of so-called human security, as opposed to territorial security of nation- states, and its promotion by the UN is in clear contradiction to all that we, the Group of 77, and the UN Charter itself consider inalienable, namely national sovereignty and security.