F. Scott Fitzgerald
Novelist
"Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments."
Contradicting quotes
Contradicting
15 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
"I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop"
John Steinbeck
Novelist, Journalist
"A man without words is a man without thought."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Writer, Aviator
"Truths may clash without contradicting each other."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that "being" is merely a continual "has been," a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself."
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