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Truthful hyperbole’ is a contradiction in terms. It’s a way of saying, ‘It’s a lie, but who cares?’

What you call 'contradiction' I call 'complement'.

What is considered [True] Knowledge? There should be solution from all sides, there should be no contradiction. It is a non-contradicting principle when a spoken sentence will be the same even after fifty years; there will be no contradictions.

Your eyes will contradict your words if your words contradict your thoughts and feelings.

Where in the Bible are we told in one verse not to do a thing and in the next to do it? ‘Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.’ Prov. xxvi. 4. ‘Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.’ Prov. xxvi. 5.

When you feel hatred towards your life, hate it. See how it will actually do something to your life.

You appear to be a mass of contradictions," Dr Washburn said. "There's a subsurface violence almost always in control, but very much alive. There's also a pensiveness that seems painful for you, yet you rarely give vent to the anger that pain must provoke.

A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.

You seem to be in a state of such absolute contradiction that I would not be surprised if your face tore in half.

A church without a missions or a mission without the church are both contradictions. Such things do exist, but only as pseudostructures

A holy war is a contradiction in terms. War dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it.

A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions.

All my own experience of life teaches me the contempt of cunning, not the fear. The phrase "profound cunning," has always seemed to me a contradiction in terms. I never knew a cunning mind which was not either shallow, or on some point diseased.

All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.

A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal a hidden unity.

A non-serving Christian is a contradiction in terms.

An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations.

An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms

...an incorrect theory, even if it cannot be inhibited by any contradiction that would refute it, is none the less incorrect, just as a criminal policy is none the less criminal even if it cannot be inhibited by any court that would curb it.

An Italian university is a contradiction in terms.

An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.

A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory. These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.

A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.

A proud faith is as much a contradiction as a humble devil.

Aren't you an enigma wrapped in a thick coating of contradictions.

As if finding a guy to solve your problems isn't a contradiction of terms.

Avoid contradiction. Clear institutional identity helps give you the competitive edge.

A successful object is one which exists beyond its own reality, which creates a dual (and not merely interactlve) relation (with its users also), a relation of contradiction, misappropriation and destablilisation.

A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.

A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life.

At a bare minimum, understanding entails being able to detect an internal contradiction: a paradox.

A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.

Consumer culture is contradiction in terms

Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being.

Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity.

Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.

But almost always, during the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors, or sub oppressors. The very structure of their thought has been conditioned by the contradiction of the concrete, existential situation by which they were shaped. Their ideal is to be men; but for them to be men is to be oppressors

Change of the unchangeable would be a contradiction.

Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption

Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.

Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.

Contradictions make people feel off. They'll say, "Hey, you just said this and now this person is doing that, how is that possible?

Dada Dada Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE.

Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I can bear it.

Humans live in a world where the weak are dominant. This is a terrible insult to our animal nature, a sort of perversion or a deep contradiction.

Do not mathematics and all sciences seem full of contradictions and impossibilities to the ignorant, which are all resolved and cleared to those that understand them?

Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

Everybody should have health care, on the one hand. But on the other hand, if you ask Americans, "Are you willing to pay for it?," they say no. So I've never been able to understand this contradiction.