When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by the other; regard them as two different facets, or two successive stages, of the same reality, a reality convincingly human just because it is complex.
Contradict Quotes
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.
Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.
Avoid contradicting in general, especially people you love.
It may likewise contribute to soften that resentment which pride naturally raises against opposition, if we consider, that he who differs from us, does not always contradict us; he has one view of an object, and we have another; each describes what he sees with equal fidelity, and each regulates his steps by his own […]
Good morning is a contradiction of terms. (Garfield)
I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions.
The spirit of contradiction renders a man unendurable to everyone.
