Quotes About Contradiction

Nothing can be further than the truth.

Christian Science … is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain.

[Paradox is] truth standing on its head to gain attention.

There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite.

The opposite of every truth is just as true.

Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption

Christ taught us truth; the Devil teaches us falsehood, and strives in every way to contradict every truth; devising various calumnies against it.

By proving contraries, truth is made manifest.

Truth sounds paradoxical!

For me, truth cracks open in the places where things do not cohere. That's how life is.

I would not know what to say to you, except this: there was never a map that got it all right, and truth and beauty were never married to one another for long.

Einer hat immer Unrecht: aber mit zweien beginnt die Wahrheit. Einer kann sich nicht beweisen: aber zweie kann man bereits nicht widerlegen.

Humans are the most inhumane of all creatures.

What is your type?"I shrugged. "Non-existent.

Paradoxes are less paradoxical in their reference to truth than most of the most plausible axioms.

Parenthood makes such sweet hypocrites of us all.

No matter what, you will be always wrong.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

It was not what he expected from a foulmouthed flower of bohemia, but he had a feeling there was both more and less to her than that.

the kind of person who in one moment could guess, with breathtaking coldness, at the innermost sorrow in your heart, and in the next moment turn and, with a cheery wave of farewell, march blithely through a plate-glass window, requiring twenty-two stitches in his cheek.

People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the two.

I see myself..in those pages as she goes back and forth, enjoying simply enjoying the beauties of the moments then chastising herself for having 'no edge' being simple and worse, harmless.

People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the two.

What he had hoped for was his ruin and what he had feared his salvation.