People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be ''consistent.''

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

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!

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes).

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.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.