Charlie Munger Quotes

My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.

The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity.

You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.

I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.

History, as well as life itself, is complicated; neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

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 don't feel it incumbent on me to make sense of everything.

That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way.

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding.

In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom might be, seem to be, two contradictory ideas both expressed at their highest level and just let to sit in the same cage sort of, vibrating. So, I think as a writer, I'm really never sure of what I really believe.

The acceptance of ambiguity implies more than the commonplace understanding that some good things and some bad things happen to us. It means that we know that good and evil are inextricably intermixed in human affairs; that they contain, and sometimes embrace, their opposites; that success may involve failure of a different kind, and failure may be a kind of triumph.

So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time.

Either is both, and Both is neither.

For me, truth cracks open in the places where things do not cohere. That's how life is.

The world is full of contradiction.

Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.

Not knowing everything is all that makes it OK, sometimes.

I've always regretted that I'm made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends.

All wisdom ends in paradox.

I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

Human experience is usually paradoxical.

Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.