Contradiction Quotes

People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise. View quote
David Hume
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. View quote
Groucho Marx
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. View quote
Blaise Pascal
I'll give you a hint. Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong. View quote
Ayn Rand
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. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
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. View quote
George Santayana
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. View quote
Douglas Adams
The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt. View quote
Elia Kazan
If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and contradiction and have interesting dialog, actors are drawn to that. (Paul Schrader)
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. View quote
Freda Adler
Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students. View quote
Paulo Freire
I am obsessed with architecture. It is true, I am restless, trying to find myself as an architect, and how best to contribute in this world filled with contradiction, disparity, and inequality, even passion and opportunity. View quote
Frank Gehry
I like complexity and contradiction in architecture. I do not like the incoherence or arbitrariness of incompetent architecture nor the precious intricacies of picturesqueness or expressionism. View quote
Robert Venturi
There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Your discovery of the contradiction caused me the greatest surprise and, I would almost say, consternation, since it has shaken the basis on which I intended to build my arithmetic. View quote
Gottlob Frege
I never perceived a contradiction in the political revolutionary field between the ideas I maintained and the idea of that symbol, that extraordinary figure who had been so familiar to me since I began to reason. View quote
Fidel Castro
The term "just war" contains an internal contradiction. War is inherently unjust, and the great challenge of our time is how to deal with evil, tyranny, and oppression without killing huge numbers of people. View quote
Howard Zinn
As far as the game of marbles is concerned, there is therefore no contradiction between the egocentric practice of games and the mystical respect entertained for rules. This respect is the mark of a mentality fashioned, not by free cooperation between equals, but by adult constraint. View quote
Jean Piaget
Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression "individual rights” is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes of clarification in today's intellectual chaos). But the expression "collective rights” is a contradiction in terms. (Ayn Rand)
The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms. View quote
Ayn Rand
That Marxism should triumph in Russia, where there is no industry, would be the greatest contradiction that Marxism could undergo. But there is no such contradiction, for there is no such triumph. Russia is Marxist more or less as the Germans of the Holy Roman Empire were Romans. View quote
José Ortega y Gasset
I often told the fanatics of realism that there is no such thing as realism in art: it only exists in the mind of the observer. Art is a symbol, a thing conjuring up reality in our mental image. That is why I don't see any contradiction between abstract and figurative art either. View quote
Antoni Tàpies
There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter. View quote
Alfred Russel Wallace