Contradiction Quotes - Page 22

• It’s time to put away our fairytales, all of them, and assume our responsibilities, the adult responsibilities that begin with adult knowledge. Our planet needs us. She needs us to think like healers and act like warriors. And if you think that’s a contradiction, then get out of the way.

  Lierre Keith

  Responsibility, Warrior, Thinking

  229 Copy quote

• Evidence that [feminine aesthetic preferences and ways of expressing oneself] may be hardwired comes from the fact that they typically appear early in childhood and often in contradiction to one's socialization. […] This indicates that some aspects of feminine verbal and aesthetic expression precede and/or supersede gender socialization.

  Julia Serano

  Expression, Childhood, May

  Julia Serano (2007). “Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity”, p.323, Seal Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Anne Hathaway

  Truth, Reality, Two

  7 Copy quote

• The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It contains a mixture of inconsistency and contradiction; to call which the word of God, is the highest pitch of extravagance: it is to attribute to the deity that which any person of common sense would blush to confess himself the author of.

  Elihu Palmer

  Common Sense, Religion, Obscurity

  7 Copy quote

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

  Paulo Freire

  Would Be, Term, Ifs

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.38, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off at the outset b abstract accusations of self-contradiction

  William James

  Truth, Self, Giving

  4 Copy quote

• There isn't anything to worry about between science and religion, because the contradictions are just in your own mind. Of course they are there, but they are not in the Lord's mind because He made the whole thing, so there is a way, if we are smart enough, to understand them so that we will not have any contradictions.

  Henry J. Eyring

  Smart, Worry, Mind

  5 Copy quote

• There is nothing that you can do that is worse for yourself, than to do something that you believe is inappropriate. And so, get clear and happy about whichever choice you make. Because it is your contradiction that causes the majority of the contradiction in vibration.

  Esther Hicks

  Believe, Choices, Vibrations

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2009). “Ask and it is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires”, p.385, ReadHowYouWant.com

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Gatting at fine leg - that's a contradiction in terms.

  Richie Benaud

  Legs, Fine, Term

  4 Copy quote

• Instead of a perpetual and perfect measure of the divine will, the fragments of the Koran were produced at the discretion of Mahomet; each revelation is suited to the emergencies of his policy or passion; and all contradiction is removed by the saving maxim that any text of Scripture is abrogated or modified by any subsequent passage.

  Edward Gibbon

  Passion, Perfect, Saving

  Edward Gibbon (1830). “The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire. By Edward Gibbon, Esq. Printed From The Edition In Twelve Volumes. With An Introductory Memoir Of The Author, By William Youngman”, p.913

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.

  Anne Michaels

  War, Stalking, Simultaneous

  Anne Michaels (2009). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.73, A&C Black

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You get the manners from the texture of existence that surrounds you. 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

  Flannery O'Connor

  Two, Southern, Quality

  95 Copy quote

• The besetting sin of able men is impatience of contradiction and of criticism. Even those who do their best to resist the temptation, yield to it almost unconsciously and become the tools of toadies and flatterers. "Authorities," "disciples," and "schools" are the curse of science and do more to interfere with the work of the scientific spirit than all its enemies.

  Thomas Huxley

  School, Men, Yield

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1967). “The Essence of T. H. Huxley: Selections Form His Writings”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is not an inherent contradiction between a Ukraine that has longstanding historic and cultural ties to Russia, and a modern Ukraine that wants to integrate more closely with Europe.

  Susan Rice

  Reality, Russia, Ukraine

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. February 23, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In Islamic belief, knowledge is two-fold. There is that revealed through the Holy Prophet (s.a.s.) and that which man discovers by virtue of his own intellect. Nor do these two involve any contradiction, provided man remembers that his own mind is itself the creation of God. Without this humility, no balance is possible. With it, there are no barriers. Indeed, one strength of Islam has always lain in its belief that creation is not static but continuous, that through scientific and other endeavours, God has opened and continues to open new windows for us to see the marvels of His creation

  Aga Khan IV

  Islamic, Humility, Men

  Speech at The Acceptance of The Charter of The Aga Khan University, ismaili.net. March 24, 2010.

  81 Copy quote

  Show source

• The law hath so many contradictions and varyings from itself, that the law may not improperly be called a law-breaker. It is become too changeable a thing to be defined: it is made little less a Mystery than the Gospel. The clergy and the lawyers, like the Freemasons, may be supposed to take an oath not to tell the secret.

  Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

  Law, Secret, May

  4 Copy quote

• A non-serving Christian is a contradiction in terms.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Term, Serving

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.208, Zondervan

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon, than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths, or to reject absurdities, and palpable contradictions.

  Baron d'Holbach

  Men, Common Sense, Opinion

  "Good Sense without God, or, Freethoughts Opposed to Supernatural Ideas". Book by Baron d'Holbach, 1900.

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do. I have always been full of contradictions. I am shy but I love the freedom of the stage. I need reassurance but at the same time I don’t want it. I hate being afraid but I can’t help wanting to frighten myself. That is how you grow.

  Sylvie Guillem

  Hate, Needs, Shy

  "Fear is the drug" by Judith Mackrell, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2006.

  71 Copy quote

  Show source

• The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.

  Mason Cooley

  Sorrow, Deceit, Aphorism

  7 Copy quote

• A yawn is more disconcerting than a contradiction.

  Mason Cooley

  Boredom

  4 Copy quote

• I loved him. I hated him. I wanted to kiss him. I wanted to strangle him. I was a walking, talking contradiction. There were days I was so torn by my conflicting emotions that I thought I would be ripped in half. Staring at my best friend and secret object of my undying love, I wondered if I would ever get off this crazy train of emotions swirling around inside me. I didn't like feeling this way. But the truth was I couldn't remember a time I didn't feel this aching need to completely immerse myself in all things Daniel Lowe.

  A. Meredith Walters

  Crazy, Kissing, Talking

  5 Copy quote

• An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Taxation, States, Term

  33 Copy quote

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

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Integrating, Form

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.123, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If I were to speak your kind of language, I would say that man's only moral commandment is: Thou shalt think.
  But a 'moral commandment' is a contradiction in terms. The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed.
  The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Thinking, Atheism

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.961, Penguin

  5 Copy quote

  Show source