Quotes of: Contradictions Keyword

There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.

Evan Parker

Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.

G.K. Chesterton

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

George Bernard Shaw

The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.

Harrison Birtwistle

It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.

George Jean Nathan

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

Saint Francis de Sales

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

Alexander Cockburn

If you're that obsessed with someone, why would you kill her? Humans are full of contradictions.

Ai Yazawa

Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it's popular, it's not culture.

Vivienne Westwood

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.

William Blake

Great science emerges out of great contradiction.

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Our contradictions are never so to ourselves.

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

We are not against religions. This country is the cradle of prophecy and the true message and we will not contradict this.

Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud

Perhaps an eccentric is just off centre - ex-centric. But that contradicts a belief of mine that we've got to be centrifugal.

Margaret Rutherford

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

Thomas Merton

Secrets make for good drama, and revealing the hidden truths and contradictions of life is, for me, one of the most exciting aspects of making movies.

Ira Sachs

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Francis Bacon

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.

David Hume

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.

Jim Jarmusch

I have this idea of myself as this quiet, observant, thoughtful child, which my parents roundly contradict. They claim that I was loud and bossy and dancing all the time.

Carrie Coon