Quotes about Contradiction
The loveliest roses sometimes bear the ugliest thorns.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our country, while it tramples our rights and dignity.
— Barbara Kingsolver
People always make war when they say they love peace.
— DH Lawrence
Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.
— Peter Kreeft
I don't know a lot about politics. I like talking about human behavior. Politicians are funny to me because they often say one thing and behave a different way.
— Stephen Colbert
If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?
— Will Rogers
Consistency is contrary to nature contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
— Aldous Huxley
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be "consistent."
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?
— Will Rogers
You don't love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
— William Faulkner
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
— William Golding
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.
— William Hazlitt