37 Quotes About Contradiction

For some, seeking contradiction means you can see constants among human beings. However, we are each unique in our own sense. Here are some great quotes about contradiction that happen when things in life do not simply add up.

“At first blush, it seems odd that loser lit books are rejected initially, then go on to be fiercely loved by legions of readers. This apparent contradiction might be due to the fact that if they didn’t screw up their lives, most losers would be the kind of power-elite, Type A go-getters whom readers love to hate.”

“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.”

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

“Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.”

“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.”

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

“Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.”

“Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There’s a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don’t reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.”

“Faith and reason overpower each other throughout one’s life, which results in contradiction, but the conflict never ceases in any sphere.”

“Good morning is a contradiction of terms.”

“He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.”

“I always look for contradiction in a character.”

“I came to trust in Jesus as my Savior after a two-year personal study of the Bible that convinced me that Scripture is free of contradiction and error – doctrinally, historically, and scientifically.”

“I don’t think there is necessarily a contradiction between being a hegemonic power on the one hand and functioning multilaterally on the other.”

“I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.”

“I think there’s an interesting contradiction of having a young face and an old soul. There’s something funny about it, and it also allows you to reinvent being old.”

“In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth.”

“In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.”

“In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.”

“It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.”

“Life is itself an occupational hazard. Sometimes the things we love hurt us. Embracing and navigating around that contradiction is part of what it is to be alive.”

“Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.”

“My life is such a contradiction. My soul yearns for holiness and then runs from the mortification necessary to attain it.”

“Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it’s popular, it’s not culture.”

“So long as confusion reigns, there will be no successful global Internet agenda, only contradiction.”

“That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.”

“The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.”

“The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.”

“The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.”

“There’s an inherent contradiction between appreciating the beauty of clothes and creativity and individuality, and the waste around the ideas of trends and seasons.”

“To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one’s thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one’s mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.”

“To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It’s in the moment.”

“We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.”

“We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed.”

“What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.”

“When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.”

“Woman’s at best a contradiction still.”

There are various ways you can deal with contradictory messages so that you can get the gist of the point.