Contradiction Quotes
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The governor didn't pitch political reform with his fingers crossed behind his back, .. But political reality sets in. Circumstances change, and he's very changeable. In a certain sense, that's a good thing. .. But when you're flexible, you also have to contradict what you've said before. (Quote by - Bob Stern)
Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't. (Quote by - Brad Holland)
The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it. (Quote by - Alexander Cockburn)
Walker contradicted himself in that very meeting. (Quote by - Bob Edwards)
A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues . (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable. (Quote by - Carl Sagan)
A virtuous person is the one able to contradict himself in a simple minute, but more virtuous is the one who does the same thing in privacy and not in front of an audience. (Quote by - Ezequiel D'Leon Masis)
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. (Quote by - William James)
It's a contradiction in the governor's proposal to make sure the education dollars go to property tax relief when at the same time he's forcing teacher salaries up. (Quote by - Sen. Richard Nass)
I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind--and to work some of those contradictions out for myself. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
The fatigue of body and mind has almost unnerved this old frame, and unfitted me to endure the burdens which Providence calls upon me to bear. I find as I grow old I grow more peevish and cannot bear so much contradiction, therefore I am called uncharitable and severe. No matter -- this frail life will soon be over. (Quote by - William Miller)
Civil marriage is a very serious problem. I think that even the religious understands that we must look for some kind of a solution because we have some contradictions. . I'm sure there are many solutions. (Quote by - Avigdor Lieberman)
We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. (Quote by - An Wang)
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)
What did this person become famous for? .. We have programs at the moment that follow a trend that contradicts the traditions and family structure of Turkey, which is a country with a 98 percent Muslim population. I am worried about this. (Quote by - Recep Tayyip Erdogan)
Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life. (Quote by - Fernand Braudel)
This recommendation is wrong, and clearly contradicted by the president. We will dispute it in a court of law. (Quote by - David Kendall)
We have said we are willing to exert every possible effort to know who's behind it because it's absolutely contradicting the policies of Arafat and the Palestinian Authority to smuggle arms. (Quote by - Saeb Erakat)
One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Satire dramatizes better than any other use of it, the inherent contradiction of free speech that it functions best when what is being said is at its most outrageous. (Quote by - Tony Hendra)
You are a woman:- you must never speak what you think; your-words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may-contradict your words. (Quote by - William Congreve)
I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a temporary victory - sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted.. but to weigh and consider. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction. (Quote by - William Blake)
I do not think it would be appropriate to use official party resources such as the DNC website on behalf of organizations whose purpose is to reverse the current platform and/or to enact legislation that contradicts that platform. (Quote by - Terry McAuliffe)
The contradiction between demand and supply of military funds remains obvious. (Quote by - Yang Xuhua)
But the more I thought about the questions, the more contradictions I saw in the leaders' answers. It was a semantic song and dance. (Quote by - Daniel Roselle)
He has a woman dress up like a boy in order to make a deep connection with the object of her affection. In the disguise, she can really be herself. We put on a mask to be more ourselves; we hide to reveal. This is the great contradiction about the art of acting, in fact. (Quote by - Dean Gilmour)
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife. (Quote by - Douglas Adams)
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this. (Quote by - Soren Kierkegaard)
Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory. (Quote by - Vernon Howard)
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. (Quote by - Bryant H. McGill)
After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
It's worth considering because there may be some unintended consequences of every municipality creating separate-type rules, .. You could have circumstances that contradict one another. (Quote by - Jeb Bush)
We have a real contradiction where students are saying, on the one hand, it's no big deal and didn't report it .. but on the other hand, they say, 'Yes, I was upset by it, yes, it made me feel bad about myself. (Quote by - Elena Silva)
How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light. (Quote by - Barry Lopez)
He's got to do better than the shoddy piecing together of flimsy evidence that contradicts the briefings we have received by various agencies, .. I'm not hearing the same things at the briefings that I'm hearing from the president's top officials. (Quote by - Russ Feingold)
That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy. (Quote by - Freda Adler)
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself I am large, I contain multitudes. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)
I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions. (Quote by - Michelle Shocked)
I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large. (Quote by - Charlie Chaplin)
I think I can say without fear of contradiction that we could generate sorties at an extremely high level and bring very, very effective air power to bear in support of our troops. (Quote by - Ken Bacon)
I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. (Quote by - Georges Bataille)
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. (Quote by - Marcel Duchamp)
Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis. (Quote by - William Empson)
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I looked someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted thier answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I as looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I could answer. It took me a while and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself!. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Art can contradict Science. (Quote by - Austin Osman Spare)
I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Taking on debt to accumulate savings is an obvious contradiction. It seems more like a clever marketing ploy than a legitimate method for increasing savings. (Quote by - Travis Plunkett)
It is patently unfair and it contradicts letting the free market work. (Quote by - Todd Baxter)
And, sir, when we think of eternity, and of the future consequences of all human conduct, what is there in this life that should make any man contradict the dictates of his conscience, the principles of justice, the laws of religion, and of God?. (Quote by - William Wilberforce)
They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
But I always liked the fact that you get these totally unacceptable images, but they're taken by a really expensive photographer, with great light, and in terms of the quality of the photograph it's a great photograph, but in terms of imagery it's unacceptable, and I like that contradiction. (Quote by - Damien Hirst)
Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man. (Quote by - Erich Fromm)
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
The court papers now contradict that. They say he was invited on it. (Quote by - Brian Walsh)
Furthermore, there is absolutely no contradiction between the separate organizations of revolutionary vanguard militants and their participation in the mass organizations of the working class. (Quote by - Ernest Mandel)
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. (Quote by - Socrates)
Many of my sharpest critics have decided to take a position of ignoring me - because they feel that by attacking me, they would draw attention to my book and give me more publicity and help me sell more books. So I think that they decided that the best thing for them to do is to say nothing. Also, I think that some of my critics simply can't refute my argument - and so it's easier for them to ignore it as well, so that they're not forced to confront the logical contradiction in their own position. (Quote by - Bruce Bartlett)
I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
This shows the extreme contradictions of the American policy in the region and indicates that it is only looking after its own national interests, which are completely contrary to the interests of other countries. (Quote by - Talat Masood)
Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself. (Quote by - George Santayana)
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
I've always regretted that I'm made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends. (Quote by - Czeslaw Milosz)
There is no reason, and certainly no evidence, to contradict Mr. Emerson's own claim that accepting Mr. Harper's offer seemed, at least to him, a way to better serve his city, province and country. (Quote by - Bernard Shapiro)
If you would inform, a positive and dogmatic manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention. If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fixed in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error. (Quote by - Frank Crane)
Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions. (Quote by - Andre Breton)
It seemed to be a speech more appropriate for a political hack than a presidential candidate by someone who clearly fails to recognize leadership. It was a contradiction within a contradiction. (Quote by - Tracey Schmitt)
It is extremely naive to think that mankind is capable of sinning against god. If god exists as a being who watches us, judges us, and cannot be contradicted, then how could anyone possibly contradict laws of conduct set forth by that being?. (Quote by - Gregory Wallace Campbell)
No legislative, administrative or judicial activity in the Hong Kong SAR is allowed to contradict the Basic Law, let alone to go against the Basic Law. (Quote by - Wu Bangguo)
As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure [Jesus Christ]. (Quote by - Fidel Castro)
You're the unfortunate contradiction in terms -- a serious good person. (Quote by - Wendy Wasserstein)
Obviously, that contradicts what most people were led to believe when the results of the 1918 experiments were published. (Quote by - Edward Hammond)
did not resolve the many contradictions between various accounts of what actions the Bush administration took in response to the threat of terrorism prior to 9/11. (Quote by - Bob Graham)
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. (Quote by - Leo Rosten)
I don't think anyone now really understands the planetisation of mankind, really understands the new world order emerging through all this period of strain and pain and contradiction, so more than ever, we need to have an internal sense of navigation. (Quote by - William Irwin Thompson)
How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the way things really are --- and always will be. How things really are --- and always will be --- is neither all-evil nor all-good but deficient, inconsistent, inferior. Principles invite us to do something about the morass of contradictions in which we function morally. Principles invite us to clean up our act; to become intolerant of moral laxity and compromise and cowardice and the turning away from what is upsetting: that secret gnawing of the heart that tells us that what we are doing is not right, and so counsels us that we'd be better off just not thinking about it. (Quote by - Susan Sontag)
The fewer contradictions between them.. the lower the risks to the global energy security. (Quote by - Viktor Khristenko)
Pathological liars can't always tell truth from falsehood and contradict themselves in an interview. They are manipulative and they admit they prey on people. They are very brazen in terms of their manner, but very cool when talking about this. (Quote by - Adrian Raine)
It's somewhat of a contradiction, .. I guess the quieter the voice, the more necessary it is to push it. It's not going to leap out at you and scream. I also can't control how a book is marketed. To say the book marketing is aggressive, fine, I'm happy with that. Push the book. That doesn't mean that my personality or writing style changes. (Quote by - David Bergen)
The ANSWER Coalition, the NCAA is not only disappointed with the ruling, .. but we condemn the city for presenting to the court a completely false brief and making in court false representations, which on the face contradict themselves. (Quote by - Brian Becker)
God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow. (Quote by - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)
Many men go into the ministry not only for the power trip involved, but also so that they will never have to be interrupted or contradicted. (Quote by - Frank Zindler)
I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted. (Quote by - Alan Turing)
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong. (Quote by - Ayn Rand)
When Jesus calls his disciples 'brothers' and 'friends', he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which is not tribal, but open to any person. (Quote by - David Kirk)
The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me. (Quote by - Thomas Merton)
Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
The great advantage of being a Southern writer is that we don't have to go anywhere to look for manners; bad or good, we've got them in abundance. We in the South live in a society that is rich in contradiction, rich in irony, rich in contrast, and particularly rich in its speech. (Quote by - Flannery O'Connor)
