I happen to feel that the degree of a persons intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic. – Lisa Alther
I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. – Georges Bataille
What an antithetical mind! — tenderness, roughness — delicacy, coarseness — sentiment, sensuality — soaring and groveling, dirt and deity — all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay! – Lord (George Gordon) Byron
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. – Marcel Duchamp
Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be consistent. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
All concords born of contraries. – Ben Jonson
Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do. – George Moore
How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms. – George Bernard Shaw
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes). – Walt Whitman
The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. – Oscar Wilde
