Contradictory Quotes

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

Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.

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

Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradictory.

Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh or a smile.

The dream is a series of images, which are apparently contradictory and nonsensical, but arise in reality from psychologic material which yields a clear meaning.

The attributes you need to be a travel writer are somewhat contradictory. For travel you need to be tough and resilient and to write you must be sensitive and sympathetic.

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.

The creative person pays close attention to what appears discordant and contradictory... and is challenged by such irregularities.

The nature of love is that it catches you off-guard, subjects you to rules you have never faced, some of them contradictory.

Yes, I know liberals are more empirical because Jonathan Chait says they are, but my empirical studies of liberal empiricism keep spitting out contradictory findings.

The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."

To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.

If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection

Son, the phrase is self-contradictory; "sense" is never "common".

I and you-We are infinate, rich, large, contradictory, living, breathing miracles-free human beings, children of God and the everlasting universe. That's what we do.

The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art.

My mother, because of her life, had almost a contradictory way of viewing life. She had this great zest and joy for life and I think that I have that. The glass is always half full for me.

Sometimes our motivations can be quite hazy, contradictory and multi-faceted, in real life.

A book which the Mohammedans foolishly believe to have been written by divine inspiration, but which Christians know to be a wicked imposture, contradictory to the Holy Scriptures.

The morality of compromise sounds contradictory.

The tolerance of the skeptic… accepts the most diverse and indeed the most contradictory opinions, and keeps all his suspicions for the “dogmatist.”

The mark of the developed intellect is that it could accommodate two contradictory ideas at the same time.

Trying to keep up with health advice can feel like surfing the Net for weather forecasts: what you find is always changing, often contradictory and rarely encouraging.

It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory.

[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man.

Your desires will very often be contradictory and so will your strengths. All of our contradictions make us whole.

A mere inference or theory must give way to a truth revealed; but a scientific truth must be maintained, however contradictory it may appear to the most cherished doctrines of religion.

On many issues, including on the use of nuclear weapons, it is not clear where [Donald] Trump stands, due to his contradictory statements.

In the realm of culture, the new totalitarianism manifests itself precisely in a harmonizing pluralism, where the most contradictory works and truths peacefully coexist in indifference.

I can be as contrary as I choose.

Reality and love are almost contradictory for me.

We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.

Even when the views are contradictory, talks are the only way forward and problems should be resolved through dialogue.

Goering was a contradictory [and] complex ... character.

Just as Lincoln got contradictory advice from the extremists of both sides . . . so now I have to guard myself against the extremists of both sides.

That's why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify with it, which I always find myself very contradictory to.

People are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.

Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so that a concept of Him was made possible to human thought.

Caution! Be very careful of false, meaningless, self-contradictory, and not even very funny warnings, like this one.

Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don't have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory.

Barack Obama's campaign of empty self-contradictory promises has apparently hoodwinked the state of Wyoming.

I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.

History is tangled, messy, contradictory. But is where we are.

We have an extremely cordial relationship with Donald Trump. Sometimes, we have contradictory views but sometimes we agree. I won't stop working together with him.

I think it is optimistic and positive - it's quite contradictory in that sense - from the lyrics. Until you actually read them, maybe they can seem contradictory.

It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

If you are trying to aid people in the process of self-discovery, what you have to do is confound them with so many concepts that are contradictory, yet each make complete sense in its own right.

What I'm attempting in each picture is nothing other than this...to bring together in a living and viable way, the most different and the most contradictory elements in the greatest possible freedom.

We all do things at certain points that are contradictory. Some things, it's a smaller contradiction, and other things it's larger.