Contradiction Quotes

The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America.

We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding.

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.

Good morning is a contradiction of terms.

Your discovery of the contradiction caused me the greatest surprise and, I would almost say, consternation, since it has shaken the basis on which I intended to build my arithmetic.

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

Once you look past the hype, actors are nothing more than fugitives from reality who specialize in contradiction: we are both children and hardened adults—wide-eyed pupils and jaded working stiffs.

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

How can you expect me to be perfect...when I am full of contradictions.

Sport is something that does not matter, but is performed as if it did. In that contradiction lies its beauty

Art can contradict Science.

There's a constant contradiction between what feels good and what feels right. But you live with decisions that you make in your life.

An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.

We belong to a tradition where we treat the entire universe as our family. For me, globalisation is the manifestation of nationalisation. There is no contradiction between the two.

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?

Fear is the contradiction of faith. Faith says, Whatever it is, it'll be okay because of God.

To call a man evangelical who is not evangelistic is an utter contradiction.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered into the heads of men.

I love that contradiction of being feminine but playing in the boys' treehouse. My whole life's been like that.

To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.

The reflection of nature in man's thought must be understood not lifelessly but in the eternal process of movement, the arising of contradictions and their solution.

It is art's task to make manifest the contradictions of Being

We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore.

The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thorough-going disregard for it which we practice.

Leadership without mutual trust is a contradiction in terms.

I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long poem," is simply a flat contradiction in terms.

The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity.

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

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

There is scarcely a page of the Bible on which an open mind does not perceive a contradiction, an unlikely story, an obvious error, an historical impossibility of one sort or another.

We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart.

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.

I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell.

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

Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.

That is the Mongolian creation myth: out of two different natures love is born. In contradiction, love grows in strength. In confrontation and transformation, love is preserved.

He who died for us, and Whom we ought to copy, did more for us than we can do for any one else. He endured the contradiction of sinners. We should have grace to follow in His steps.

I hold myself accountable for my contradictions.

What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.

In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death

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

Faith is a mental attitude that is so convinced of its own idea - which so completely accepts it - that any contradiction is unthinkable and impossible.

There were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms.

If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and contradiction and have interesting dialog, actors are drawn to that.

In the contradiction lies the hope.

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