Quotes About Contradiction

If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself I reply: Because I have been wrong once or oftener I do not aspire to be always wrong.

Consistency is contrary to nature contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be "consistent."

To be honest one must be inconsistent.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another.

Let us, cautious in diction, And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.

Whenever and whatever happened to alter the boy's view of the world so radically, from the moment that it happened, Mackay's story becomes one of subservience to the contrary will within him that he calls God.

Hellingafwaards. Je wil wel, maar moet lopen alsof je niet wil.

How many a world-embracing creed has sprung from a tiny contradiction in terms!

Paradox begets paradox; and we could scarcely have a wilder paradox than the assertion that none but a magnanimous man can act magnanimity, and that lovers alone can do justice to a love-scene.

anger, as I've said, is incompatible with joy.

Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven,I oft have wish'd for Hell for ease from Heaven.

Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read'st black while I read white.

There is no idea so right that there is nothing wrong about it, And nothing so wrong that there isn't something right about it. ~William Blake~

I love to use these phrases - 'with the greatest respect', 'in all modest', 'I humbly submit' - which in fact always imply the complete opposite.

Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.

You don't love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.

Sometimes I think you're just too sweet to die Sometimes I think you're just too sweet to die Another time I think you oughta be buried alive. —RICHARD "RABBIT" BROWN, James Alley Blues, 1927

They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

The body of Our Saviour shat but Our Saviour shat not.

Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.

We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.