Quotes about Contradiction
From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.
— Jonathan Edwards
I find all men to be very much like wearing high-heeled shoes - I love how pretty they make me feel, but by the end of the night I can't wait to get rid of them .. Thelma Rae Goodpepper in Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
— Beth Hoffman
I got ham but I'm not a Hamster
— Bill Bailey
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
— Mark Twain
The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.
— Albert Einstein
Montefiore's impression of Jesus was wrong. Jesus loved the Pharisees, although He denounced them publicly. And I love the Communists, as well as their tools in the Church, although I denounce them.
— Richard Wurmbrand
They were like two enemies in love with one another.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens.
— St. Augustine
They grow the fruit, But eat the rind
— Maya Angelou
Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical it is pathetic. All religion cannot be true because some of them are so diametrically opposed to each other.
— Josh McDowell
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
One of the ironies of human nature is that it often has a way of rejecting the best and accepting the worst.
— Billy Graham