Assertion Quote by Marguerite Yourcenar

Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth... They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering…

— Louis de Broglie

“We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them and see them in the light of…

— Thomas Merton

Truths may clash without contradicting each other.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Living with contradiction may be nothing new to humans, but acknowledging it, and accepting it are. Even the dictionary has trouble accepting a paradox,…

— Shellen Lubin

Unless you recognize the contradictions within various strata, you fall prey to a really kind of false homogenization that does not do justice to…

— Henry Giroux

One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us.

— Annie Lennox

Contradictions have always existed in the soul of [individuals]. But it is only when we prefer analysis to silence that they become a constant…

— Thomas Merton

“This is the source of the trouble. Persons tend to think and feel exclusively in one mode or the other and in doing so…

— Robert M. Pirsig

“Sometimes things that appear completely irreconcilable and mutually exclusive serve a shared purpose that could not be achieved except through their contradiction.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

I think you have to live inside your contradictions and find a way to accept that that's the human condition - to be forced…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

“When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Two types of contradiction exist – technical and physical: A Technical Contradiction is when, as you improve something, something else gets worse. You start…

— Lilly Haines-Gadd