Definition of Contradiction
Contradiction
An assertion of the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration; gainsaying.
Direct opposition or repugnancy; inconsistency; incongruity or contrariety; one who, or that which, is inconsistent.
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Contradiction Quotations
I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.
Ron Paul
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
Ayn Rand
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
Groucho Marx
Woman's at best a contradiction still.
Alexander Pope
Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
William Blake
I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.
Charlie Chaplin
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.
David Hume
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
Blaise Pascal
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Blaise Pascal
Contradiction Translations
contradiction in French is contradiction
contradiction in Latin is contradictio, contradictio
contradiction in Norwegian is motsigelse
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