A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
Contradict Quotes
If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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.
The spirit of contradiction renders a man unendurable to everyone.
My point? Simple: we live in an era of non-contiguous information streams. I believe one thing; someone else believes another à and the bedrock assumptions are utterly contradictory. This is what drives me nuts about discussing current events with some people. It’s like discussing the Apollo program with people who think it was all faked, […]
The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.
One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.
