Contradictory Quotes

Contradictory Quote of the day

You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

Trouble comes not because we have taken any wrong step but because we are in a complex and contradictory world.

You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.

Words belong to nobody, and in themselves they evaluate nothing. But they can serve any speaker and be used for the most varied and directly contradictory evaluations on the part of the speakers.

Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.

Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.

Of course, if one ignores contradictory observations, one can claim to have an "elegant" or "robust" theory. But it isn't science.

Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique.

Sometimes God's ways are not our ways. He may do something that seems unclear or even contradictory. We have to trust Him even when we don't understand Him.

There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.

Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.

Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory.

Any belief in miracles is flat contradictory not just to the facts of science but to the spirit of science.

Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.

Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being.

The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item; it brings a woman to a man's height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him.

It just struck me that one of the things about photography that made it such a compelling medium to deal with is that it is perhaps the most contradictory of mediums.

Beautiful woman wrapped in chadors, with huge machine guns in their hands. Brilliant, shocking, amazingly contradictory images. They compelled me to deeply investigate these ideas.

I had a lot of enthusiasms that were very contradictory, I was never very doctrinaire in the type of design I wanted to do.

I see the world in very fluid, contradictory, emerging, interconnected terms, and with that kind of circuitry I just don't feel the need to say what is going to happen or will not happen.

The myths and legends about Faerie are many and diverse, and often contradictory. Only one thing is certain - that nothing is certain. All things are possible in the land of Faerie.

All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.

Consciousness of exclusion through naming is acute. Identities seem contradictory, partial, and strategic.

I think people have the capacity to be many different things and many seemingly contradictory behaviors.

I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.

Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc … It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth.

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true.

We are by far the most contradictory of all primates. An animal with this much internal conflict has never lived on this earth.

Everything that is contradictory creates life

The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible. You never come to the end of the surprises he has in store for you.

Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory.

The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.

One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.

A girl asks her doctor, "Doctor, I've forgotten to take my contradictory pill!" The doctor says: "Are you ignorant?" The girl says: "Yes, three months!"

Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer degenerates into questionable manipulation.

One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us.

Jemu watched his father disappear. He didn't throw the coconut and he didn't cry. Never again would he know love for another human being that wasn't adulterated by another, contradictory emotion.

You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.

In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.

The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.

I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art.

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one

Every novelist has a different purpose-and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.

Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.

I'm a huge fan of basically anything written about complicated, contradictory women. I'm drawn to them really quickly.