#contradict

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad. ↗

— Hans Eysenck

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One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires. ↗

— Robert Collier

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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

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Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions. ↗

— John Bates Clark

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To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius. ↗

— Lukas Foss

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This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't. ↗

— Douglas Hofstadter

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