Contradicting Quotes - Page 4

• We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication.

  Germaine Greer

  Communication, Community, Age

  Germaine Greer (2009). “The Female Eunuch”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.

  Joseph Joubert

  Wise, Fashion, Often Is

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• Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Lightning, Danger, Strikes

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2014). “The Window at the White Cat”, p.225, The Floating Press

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• Twitter is about creating whatever persona you want to create and either sticking with it or changing it or evolving it or contradicting it, and I've done all that stuff.

  Michael Ian Black

  Creating, Done, Want

  "Michael Ian Black on the many versions of himself". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. October 22, 2013.

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• When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that "being" is merely a continual "has been," a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Together, Lasts, Destroying

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• But his Lordship [tells]us that God is wholly here, and wholly there, and wholly every where; because he has no parts. I cannot comprehend nor conceive this. For methinks it implies also that the whole world is also in the whole God, and in every part of God. Norcan I find anything of this in the Scripture. If I could find it there, I could believe it; and if I could find it in the public doctrine of the Church, I could easily abstain from contradicting it.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Bible, God, Believe

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• I think often if people don't have a lot of experience with a particular type of person or a particular type of brain, they can make dangerous assumptions. That's one of the reasons that I'm so interested in contradicting and troubling held thoughts about black women.

  Morgan Parker

  Thinking, People, Black

  "There’s Poetry About Beyoncé Now - And It’s Amazing". Interview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. February 15, 2017.

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• Creflo Dollar is compromising, confusing or outright contradicting essential Christian doctrine. Joel Osteen does exactly the same thing. Now, not necessarily the exact same doctrines, but he is compromising, confusing or contradicting essential Christian doctrine. Their view of faith is a force, words are the containers of the force, and through the force of faith, one can create his or her own reality. That's not biblical faith. That's a false faith, or faith that doesn't satisfy and ultimately will lead people into harm's way.

  Hank Hanegraaff

  Christian, Biblical, Reality

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• D.H. Lawrence, I think, defined the difference between writing an article and writing a novel very well. He said, in writing a novel, the writer must be able to identify emotionally and intellectually with two or three or four contradicting perspectives and give each of them very a convincing voice. It's like playing tennis with yourself and you have to be on both sides of the yard. You have to be on both sides, or all sides if there are more than two sides.

  Amos Oz

  Writing, Thinking, Giving

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• A man without words is a man without thought.

  John Steinbeck

  Life, Men

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.125, Penguin

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• How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Believe, Rebellious, Contradiction

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• Some devout Christians are among the most fervent advocates of the death penalty, contradicting Jesus Christ and justifying their belief on an erroneous interpretation of Hebrew Scriptures. "An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth," their most likely response, overlooks the fact that this was promulgated by Moses as a limitation- a prohibition against taking both eyes or all of an offender's teeth in retribution.

  Jimmy Carter

  Christian, Jesus, Eye

  Jimmy Carter (2005). “Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• Our alleged facts might be true in all kinds of ways without contradicting any truth already known. I will dwell now on only one possible line of explanation, - not that I see any way of elucidating all the new phenomena I regard as genuine, but because it seems probable I may shed a light on some of those phenomena. All the phenomena of the universe are presumably in some way continuous; and certain facts, plucked as it were from the very heart of nature, are likely to be of use in our gradual discovery of facts which lie deeper still.

  William Crookes

  Lying, Heart, Light

  "Address to the Society for Psychical Research". "Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research", Volume 12, (p. 338), March 1897.

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• Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

  George Orwell

  Mean, Two, Mind

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 2, ch. 9 (1949)

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• The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wise, Wisdom, Yoga

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.572, Oxford Paperbacks

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• We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government down.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Government, Growth

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “The uncommon wisdom of Ronald Reagan: a portrait in his own words”

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• Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "Song of Myself " l. 1324 (written 1855)

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  Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confidence, Dream, Mistake

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.206, Harvard University Press

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• Absence makes the heart grow fonder

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  I Miss You, Romantic, Missing You

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• Many hands make light work.

  John Heywood

  Change, Teamwork, Hands

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.221

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• The best things in life are free

  Luther Vandross

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Song: The Best Things in Life Are Free

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• The best things in life are free - and $19.95.

  Billy Mays

  Sarcastic, Things In Life, Taxes Funny

  Interview with Lloyd Grove, www.entrepreneur.com. October 13, 2008.

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• You get what you pay for.

  Gabriel Biel

  Pay, Cradle, Passion And Purity

  "Expositio Canonis Missae" by Gabriel Biel, Lectio 86, 1576.

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• Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I can bear it.

  Walt Whitman

  Math, Leaves Of Grass, Bears

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• I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.

  Tom Stoppard

  Writing, Play, Way

  Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). “Tom Stoppard in Conversation”, p.49, University of Michigan Press

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