Top 248 Conflicting Quotes & Sayings

Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.

The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals.

When knowledge is scant or conflicting, folklore takes over.

I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence

Not only are there as many conflicting truths as there are people to claim them; there are equally multitudinous and conflicting truths within the individual.

On abortion: We are talking about ambiguous issues of a complicated kind where you have to balance conflicting interests and concerns.

Confusion comes from trying to amalgamate several conflicting ideas.

Vetting and verifying information is one thing. Having our government sending out conflicting messages to the American people when conflict can be avoided is another.

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

Avoiding inflation is not an absolute imperative but rather is one of a number of conflicting goals that we must pursue and that we may often have to compromise.

I've got weird conflicting feelings about my generation.

As elite attitudes towards public education over time illustrate, simple formulas are far from adequate. There are conflicting tendencies.

I've always known that there are conflicting issues going on where I'm from. It's always been that way.

A lot of people don't give much thought to what they believe, and it's easy for them to hold what often are two conflicting ideas in their head at the same time.

I think as a student I ended up liking so many different and conflicting things.

But I'll say this, if what looks like the facts of the matter are conflicting with your feelings, then you need more information before deciding

Creating a strong business and building a better world are not conflicting goals - they are both essential ingredients for long-term success

Love is big. Love makes room for conflicting feelings.

The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can prove anything from it.

If somebody did a new show that, within a family, had conflicting political views, that would be great.

I suppose I experienced the personal dilemma that baffles every working woman. What happens when you are expected to be Superwoman, to perform a dozen conflicting tasks at the same time?

The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.

There are many conflicting interests in Europe.

War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.

Politicians have conflicting values but not conflicting knowledge.

I wouldn't be able to date someone who had conflicting ideas on abortion, no. Because it's every woman's right to do whatever they do.

What your child wants and what you know is right for them can be very conflicting at times.

As a writer you can and should expect to hear conflicting responses to your story.

I do try to pick music that is from different worlds and typically doesn't flow together. When you do that, you get songs with conflicting messages, but for me, it's on a musical level first and foremost.

To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides.

Not only are the varieties of morality innumerable, but some of them are conflicting with each other.

Volition . . . takes place only when there are a number of conflicting systems of ideas, and depends on our having a complex field of consciousness.

The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

If I say one thing to the UFC, I say it in an interview. I don't have conflicting stories.

The law is not abstract, impartially arbitrating between conflicting social classes; it is a tool in the hands of those who govern.

I wish feminism wasn't so scary to people. It should be an evolving concept. I think it's an umbrella term to embrace conflicting ideas.

Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.

I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function.

Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence.

The play of conflicting interests in a framework of shared purposes is the drama of a free society. It is a robust exercise, and often a noisy one. It is not for the faint-hearted, or the tidy-minded.

The whole Zionist project was based on a whole spectrum of different and even conflicting dreams and visions.

I often see cases of Internet news where there's no reconciliation for what's gone before and what's newly arrived. That training for me - which was absolutely brutal and I was terrified - was so important, especially later in life when one was faced with conflicting stories and conflicting evidence.

I look at the most promising putative moral theories. I construct crucial thought experiments in areas where they give conflicting advice. I confront their conflicting advice with my own moral sensitivity, my moral intuition. I take the theory that can best explain the content of my intuitions as gaining inductive support through an inference to the best explanation.

Justice is that system of adjusting conflicting interests which makes the group strong and progressive rather than weak and retrogressive whereas injustice is a system of adjusting conflicting interests which makes a nation weak and retrogressive rather than strong and progressive.

As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

When faced with conflicting thoughts and emotions, we must decide what to trust, what we fear, or what we know. What's important is that this decision be made by the knowledgeable versus the anxious part of who we are.

Design: holding conflicting ideas in your head without difficulty

During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.

I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function

Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?

Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.

According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.

There is no perfect strategic decision. One always has to pay a price. One always has to balance conflicting objectives, conflicting opinions, and conflicting priorities. The best strategic decision is only an approximation - and a risk.

Conflicting economic interest is relatively unimportant as a cause of war.

Remember, Montag, we're the happiness boys. We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred.