Top 643 Contradiction Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.

The business aspect of this sport is a contradiction to what it's really about, and that's knowing something for what it is and not just what it looks like.

So long as confusion reigns, there will be no successful global Internet agenda, only contradiction.

I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion

It is absolutely without contradiction that when women are encouraged to participate in the formal economies of their societies, the economy grows.

I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity ... I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can.

No Irish nationalist could support any treaty which institutionalizes British government claims to a part of Irish national territory. Indeed, the term - 'constitutional nationalism'- used by Mr.Mallon (SDLP) and his colleagues to describe their political philosophy is a contradiction in terms. The only constitutional nationalist in Ireland today is Sean McBride. He puts his nationalism within a framework of Irish constitutionality. Mr. Mallon, however, puts his within the framework of British constitutionality. Irish nationalism within British constitutionality is a contradiction in terms.

Christ could not create a codified 'Christian ethics'; such a thing would be a contradiction in terms.

There's an inherent contradiction between appreciating the beauty of clothes and creativity and individuality, and the waste around the ideas of trends and seasons.

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

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

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

We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

What we now face is the contradiction between unbalanced and inadequate development and the people's ever-growing needs for a better life.

No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge.

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.

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.

It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.

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

Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching.

Say to all small and great, and that often, that fully, quickly and willingly, without grumbling and contradiction, they do all your commands that are not against God.

I've always regretted that I'm made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends.

Jews outside Israel live in permanent contradiction. I think they should come home.

My life is such a contradiction. My soul yearns for holiness and then runs from the mortification necessary to attain it.

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

As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kid s.

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

Political art - not always a contradiction in terms - can destroy institutions, or eat away at them.

Capitalism is, in Mao's language, the main contradiction in the world today and so our efforts have to be focused on ending this system and making a new one.

Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding.

There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.

Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction.

Christians necessarily believe we depend on God for everything-a prayerless Christian, then, is a contradiction in terms.

I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.

But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

Subjectivity is my middle name, a trick memory is my pack mule, and self-contradiction is my trusty old jackknife.

You can be a very charitable capitalist. Like [Nicola] Sarkozy was saying, we have to 'moralise capitalism', which for me is a contradiction in terms.

It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.

The deeper and richer a personality is, the more full it is of paradox and contradiction. It is only a shallow character who offers us no problems of contrast.

Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.

Obviously, anyone in contradiction with authority must possess equivalent knowledge and additional fact in order to sustain his argument.

I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.

The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.

My good friend, the poet Kofi Natambu, once said, "Contradiction is how we operate."

I don't think there is necessarily a contradiction between being a hegemonic power on the one hand and functioning multilaterally on the other.

It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator in the year 1902.

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.

Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.

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

A good addiction is a contradiction in terms. Anything people can't give up or must have is not healthy, no matter what the activity.

I am most interested in people. I try to capture their complexity and contradiction and beauty. It does not matter where they are from.

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

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. ... If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

Individual character is in the right that is in strict consistence with itself. Self-contradiction is the only wrong.

There is no contradiction between the fact that Israel has full personal equality of citizenship but extends national rights only to the Jewish people.

The heavens, with their everlasting faithfulness, look down on no sadder contradiction than the sluggard and the slattern in their prayers.

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.