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Imagine all contradictions, all possible incompatibilities
you will find them in the government, in the law-courts, in the churches, in the public shows of this droll nation.
Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth
Truths may clash without contradicting each other.
Only when you give up being consistent will you find the truth! Inconsistency makes you free to discover other roads.
Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.
Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.
Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his belief to another.
The world is full of contradiction.
There is no inconsistency when God raises up those who have fallen prostrate.
Differing perspectives, needs, and desires sometimes have a way of spawning completely different interpretations of the same events.
Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.
What may appear as the truth to one person will often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry the seeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appeared to be different truths are like the countless and apparently different leaves of the same tree.
The refutation and remedy of errors cannot precede their rise; and thus the fact of false developments or corruptions involves the correspondent manifestation of true ones. Moreover,
There must always be a discrepncy between concepts and reality, because the former are static and discontinuous while the latter is dynamic and flowing
The spirit of our accurate and exact philosophy is outraged by conclusions that contradict each other so glaringly.
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Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.
Some misunderstandings are hard to cure.
Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
A new truth is a truth, an old error is an error.
Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed ere long into an amiable indifferentism which to outward appearance differed but little from the indifferentism ...
The Truth is doubted.
There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already.
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
There is a fundamental error in separating the parts from the whole, the mistake of atomizing what should not be atomized. Unity and complementarity constitute reality.
To be honest, one must be inconsistent.
The questions most furiously discussed are those which have in them a basis of truth, and yet a large admixture of errors. We inconsiderately take hold of, and mistakingly support or oppose them, as either wholly true or wholly false.
all appears to change when we change
Too many constants were changing, belying the illusion of permanence.
Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.
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 too complex.
It should not be believed that a march of three or four days in the wrong direction can be corrected by a countermarch. As a rule, this is to make two mistakes instead of one.
Things are not what they appear to be: nor are they otherwise.
Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth.
When our patterns are threatened by new facts, reason is seldom the victor: 'I know what I think, so don't go confusing me with new opinions.
Deceptions are more frequent than changes
The confusion and undesigned inaccuracy so often to be observed in conversation, especially in that of uneducated persons, proves that truth needs to be cultivated as a talent, as well as recommended as a virtue.
What goes unnamed remains hard to correct.
It is expected that there will be discrepancies between models and observations. However, why these arise and what one should conclude from them are interesting and more subtle than most people realize. Indeed, such discrepancies are the classic way we learn something new.
The truth, a truth, and reality are not always the same.
True change happens within not without
The discrepancy between what was expected and what has been observed has grown over the years, and we're straining harder and harder to fill the gap.
Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the Church's credibility.
It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes; to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place.
He had entered by then the broad, human path of inconsistencies.
Error never shows itself in its naked reality, in order not to be discovered. On the contrary, it dresses elegantly, so that the unwary may be led to believe that it is more truthful than truth itself.
Language is the source of misunderstandings.
All the wrong questions have been asked and the correct answers are not true.
In consistency lies the power
WHAT THINGS SEEM MAY NOT BE WHAT THEY ARE,
Truth is so often disconcerting.
Truth lives in the cellar, error on the doorstep.
I'm full of contradictions.
The lies are in different places.
Theories are not so much wrong as incomplete
The confusion is always created within the illusion.
The fact is the statements are perfectly consistent, but more importantly, I don't have all the facts.
Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.
We often think ourselves inconsistent creatures, when we are the furthest from it, and all the variety of shapes and contradictory appearances we put on, are in truth but so many different attempts to gratify the same governing appetite.
There is a point in the imagination of a creative man when the wrong thing is correct almost simply because it is wrong.
Plainly it is not every error made by a witness which affects his credibility. In each case the trier of fact has to make an evaluation; taking into account such matters as the nature of the contradictions, their number and importance, and their bearing on other parts of the witness's evidence.
All errors spring up in the neighborhood of some truth; they grow round about it, and, for the most part, derive their strength from such contiguity.
The truth often sounds paradoxical.
As soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency.
Misunderstandings arise only in undefined relationships
Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.
The error never lies with facts but with how they're used.
It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of a defeat; but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress towards a victory.
The errors of a theory are rarely found in what it asserts explicitly; they hide in what it ignores or tacitly assumes.
It is not a word too much to say that the New Testament abounds with errors.
Truth is in all things, even partly, in error.
You have to surrender to a book. If you do, when something in it seems to be going askew, you are wounded. The more you have surrendered to a book, the more jarring its errors appear.
Error is sometimes so nearly allied to truth that it blends with it as imperceptibly as the colors of the rainbow fade into each other.
Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases.
Confusion is a web of words.
Why is it,' he said quietly, 'that quite often even the things which are correct just don't seem to be right?
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
fallacies and not the correct explanations. But here follows a refutation of their reasonings independently of the texts. This is the difference.
With regard to this the Sathkhyas
One mistake cannot justify another.
There are mistakes, and then there are choices.
Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies ...
That was the strange problem with writing, you had discovered. Meaning never matched the words and words always evaded the thought.
Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.
Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.
Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.
Changes occur because there's a gap between what is and what should be.
The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.
Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.
Everything in this book may be wrong.
Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being aware of the confusion. It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in. The only chance of renovation is to open our eyes and see the mess. It is not a mess you can make sense of.
Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.
[I]n a question like this truth is only to be had by laying together many varieties of error.
One's instinct is at first to try and get rid of a discrepancy, but I believe that experience shows such an endeavour to be a mistake. What one ought to do is to magnify a small discrepancy with a view to finding out the explanation.
There have been so many untruths, I don' blame you for being confused.