Contradictory Quotes

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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
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life. — Charles Baudelaire
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
Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain. — Carl von Clausewitz
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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