164 Quotes About Contradiction

After all, these were blood drinkers, beings who spoke gently, liked poetry, and yet killed mortals all the time.

Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. That’s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are constantly beating us over the head with the “thou shalts” and “thou should”, but rather a recovery of the real ambiguity of being and an ability to see ourselves as at once powerful and weak, noble and ignoble, future-oriented, past-facing.

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

عام طور پر قول و فعل کے تضاد سے بڑی قد آور شخصیتوں کا خمیر بنا ہوتا ہے۔

In nature there are no contradictions, only events.

Plainly it is not every error made by a witness which affects his credibility. In each case the trier of fact has to make an evaluation; taking into account such matters as the nature of the contradictions, their number and importance, and their bearing on other parts of the witness's evidence.

The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything.

It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.

These beliefs contradict each other, so they can’t be all right