Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.
— Aristotle
Craziest bible quotes that are about contradict yourself
A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.
I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions.
I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the other side. As opposed to choosing either or, choosing both.
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
It’s time to put away our fairytales, all of them, and assume our responsibilities, the adult responsibilities that begin with adult knowledge. Our planet needs us. She needs us to think like healers and act like warriors. And if you think that’s a contradiction, then get out of the way.
Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding.
Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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.
Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.
A fundamental contradiction does not exist between socialism and a market economy.
I we are born to die and we all die to live, then what's the point of living life if it just contradicts?
As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.
No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted.
.. but to weigh and consider.
It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.
There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights.
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.
Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my work to embody my inherent contradictions.
Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?
I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious.
Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.
I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain ending - an art (and a politics) in which optimism is kept in check, and nihilism at bay.
Whatever contradicts the Word of God should be instantly resisted as diabolical.
On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long.
The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in the checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite.
The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.
Elizabeth II - because of press estimates of the Queen's private wealth—which were contradicted by the Palace—and reports of affairs and strained marriages among her
Race and ethnicity in the United States - case, grouping is thus based on the geography of the individual, and may contradict or misrepresent their self-identification, for instance not all immigrants
Prince Andrew, Duke of York - interview, Prince Andrew says he met Epstein in 1999 through Maxwell; this contradicts comments made by the Duke's private secretary in 2011, who claims the
India - very similar to that which they experienced in later periods. This would contradict assertions that this rigid form of the caste system emerged in India only
Donald Trump - privilege. Congress need not justify the request, the memo stated, contradicting the administration's justification that a legislative purpose is needed
Special Counsel investigation (2017–2019) - Post reported on March 7, 2018, that Mueller has gathered evidence that contradicts Prince, and ABC News reported on April 6, 2018, that Nader had met with
List of Marvel Cinematic Universe films - This timeline ignores the two "eight-year" continuity errors, but also contradicts the events of Black Panther and Infinity War by placing them in 2017
J. K. Rowling - assisted him in the writing process, ensuring that his scripts did not contradict future books in the series. She told Alan Rickman (Severus Snape) and
Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen - military stated that accusations of allowing AQAP to leave with cash contradicts their primary objective of depriving AQAP of its financial strength.
We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.
Every morning, I shall concern myself anew about the boundary, Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No, And pressing forward honor reality. We cannot avoid, Using power, Cannot escape the compulsion, To afflict the world, So let us, cautious in diction, And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.
What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy
Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do.
I have always been full of contradictions. I am shy but I love the freedom of the stage. I need reassurance but at the same time I don’t want it. I hate being afraid but I can’t help wanting to frighten myself. That is how you grow.
Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
Nations without a past are contradictions in terms.
What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.
How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.
A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich.
I cannot properly contradict him.
You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings.
However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.