Quotes About Contradiction

Let us talk about oxymoron, common sense, for instance.

Your advice seems a little ironical.""Oh, you may either follow it or reverse it—that is its chief beauty. It is equally good taken either way.

Grace sat down where the chair wasn't.

A paradox is a storm that rains on itself.

If consultants followed their own advice, they wouldn't tell anyone.

The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.

My favorite machine at the gym is the vending machine.

Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

I think the world of you...and you know what condition the world is in today.

What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.

Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

He led his regiment from behind. He found it less exciting.

If I melt dry ice, can I swim without getting wet?

If you are trying to aid people in the process of self-discovery, what you have to do is confound them with so many concepts that are contradictory, yet each make complete sense in its own right.

It's not a bad thing, is it, to be strong in some ways and fragile and vulnerable in others?

it's really make sense when it's does not make sense

I love you as I do all - not at all.