Fernando Pessoa Quotes

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

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.

She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises.

I don’t have any mottoes. If I did I would forever be contradicting them.

Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.

I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.

Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers.

When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But an acceptance of contradiction is no excuse for fuzzy thinking. We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledge that they cannot take use all the way.

Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms.

That's your responsibility as a person, as a human being - to constantly be updating your positions on as many things as possible. And if you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.

irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.

If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.

Son, the phrase is self-contradictory; "sense" is never "common".

When people try to use religion to address the natural world, science pushes back on it, and religion has to accommodate the results. Beliefs can be permanent, but beliefs can also be flexible. Personally, if I find out my belief is wrong, I change my mind. I think that's a good way to live.

Hypocrisy is annoying but not evil. Someone who says one thing and does another has doubled their chances of being half right.

It is tragic-comic to see that all this knowledge and understanding exercises no power at all over men's lives, that their lives do not express in the remotest way what they have understood, but rather the opposite.

All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.

It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.

His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.

They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.

Sometimes as human beings, we're so contradictory - we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves. That's what I'm learning to embrace in television - not knowing what's going to happen. I might make a specific choice for myself and then in the next episode the writers might write something that contradicts it.

The most useless job in the world is that of the critic. That is a prejudiced statement. I admit it. I'm prejudiced. I hate critics. ... And now, as the saying goes (yesterday, I couldn't even spell critik), and now I are one.

It means we're looking one way, while following another. We're for one side and also the other. We mean what we say, but our intentions are different.