Ambivalence Quote by David Seabury

Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity,…

— John Dewey

Humans seem to be programmed to think of ambivalent feelings at the same time. That is the driving force behind human beings: to be…

— RM

Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and…

— John Dewey

Negative thinking, don't you waste your thoughts, verbal conflict is a waste of word, physical conflict is a waste of flesh.

— Damian Marley

Conflict exists strictly as an opportunity to raise our consciousness.

— Carl Jung

Feeling and thinking are directly proportional to each other and inseparable.

— Anonymous

In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels

— Daniel Goleman

Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

It is possible to conceive conflict as not necessarily a wasteful outbreak of incompatibilities, but a normal process by which socially valuable differences register…

— Mary Parker Follett

But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in…

— Robert B. Laughlin

Let me say to begin with: It is not neurotic to have conflict ... Conflicts within ourselves are an integral part of human life.

— Karen Horney

There is thought, and then there is thinking about thoughts, and they don't feel the same.

— Susanna Kaysen