Quotes about Contradiction

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.

I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.

Leadership without mutual trust is a contradiction in terms.

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

If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable. Because you are not fit to go there, I answered. All sinners would be miserable in heaven.

For everything that you find dreadful, there's usually something that is rather marvelous as well.

America, thou half-brother of the world; With something good and bad of every land.

Sometimes I feel like the most liberal person among conservatives, and sometimes like the most conservative among liberals.

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.

Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.—'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.'—Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.