164 Quotes About Contradiction

Mine is a perplexing relationship with Truth. I desire Truth, I ponder about it and I seek it. In fact, I have felt in the past that Truth likes to seek me out, too. But my proclivity is not to apply Truth where it truly matters… And sometimes, I parade like Truth is at my whim to be bent.

Where in the Bible are we told in one verse not to do a thing and in the next to do it?‘Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.’ Prov. xxvi. 4.‘Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.’ Prov. xxvi. 5.

But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a mind as low as that possessed by the lowest animal, be trusted when it draws such grand conclusions?

The profoundest thing writing teaches us is how much we contradict ourselves.

I'm a beautiful mess of contradiction,A chaotic display of imperfection.

When no one’s word is authoritative, any crank is as credible as the next person. It is the irony at the heart of conspiracy thinking: You can’t trust anyone these days, so you may as well place some credence in some stranger who just tweeted something exciting, if unproven. ... When someone whispers, “Trust no one,” they are inevitably also saying, “Trust me.

Transcendence transfigures; it does not reconcile, but rather transmutes opposites into something surpassing them that effaces their oppositions.

Regarding war and peace—the seeds of each are planted in the other.

Regarding war and peace—the seed of each is planted in the other.