Able Quote by William Poundstone

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

— Norman Vincent Peale

Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity.

— Richard Kadrey

“Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. A contradiction cannot exist. No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into…

— Ayn Rand

“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

Understanding is but the sum of misunderstandings.

— Haruki Murakami

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human…

— Soren Kierkegaard

apparent contradiction ... is often the opportunity for new discovery in science; and it even may be said that the absence of apparent contradiction…

— Margaret Benson

One is not likely to achieve understanding from the explanation of another.

— Takuan Soho

we would understand much more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting time on…

— Jose Saramago

Misunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish.

— Philip Yancey

The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.

— Anonymous

“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