Contradictory Quotes
218 quotes by 191 authors
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was…
— Saint Augustine
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As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
— Charles Baudelaire
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The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said,…
— Andrew Carnegie
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Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
— Carl von Clausewitz
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We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We don't know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves we should identify with or…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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The history of acceptance of new theories frequently shows the following steps: At first the new idea is treated as pure nonsense, not worth looking…
— Kurt Lewin
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We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step…
— Margaret Mead
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The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible.…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances…
— Marcel Proust
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Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so that…
— Annie Besant
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At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes-an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they…
— Carl Sagan
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I am convinced that this is the only means of advancing science, of clearing the mind from a confused heap of contradictory observations, that do…
— Joshua Reynolds
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One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory…
— Robert Collier
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Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape our senses; and…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The contradictory experiments of chemists leave us at liberty to conclude what we please. My conclusion is, that art has not yet invented sufficient aids…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory, illogical, and incoherent. This is…
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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The more experiences and experiments accumulate in the exploration of nature, the more precarious the theories become. But it is not always good to discard…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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What has been said of [God] is either unintelligible or perfectly contradictory; and for this reason must appear impossible to every man of common sense.
— Baron d'Holbach
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Man wants two contradictory things together: he wants peace and he is ambitious. It is impossible. If you are ambitious, then your mind is bound…
— Rajneesh
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There are urges and urges; you are exploding with urges, desires. You don`t have one desire, you have many desires. Not only that you have…
— Rajneesh
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