Bill Maher Quotes

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.

Intelligence is: (a) the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or (b) a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is (c) both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting.

Which path do you intend to take, Nell?' said the Constable, sounding very interested. 'Conformity or rebellion?' Neither one. Both ways are simple-minded - they are only for people who cannot cope with contradiction and ambiguity.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

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

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

It's hard to find logic in things sometimes. That's why I can't analyze things too much, because it often doesn't make much sense.

Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.

The best ideas make you want to say 'yes' and 'no' in the same breath.

In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth.

I think people have a hard time dealing with a bunch of things at once. They can't have something be disturbing and funny at the same time. They can't have that kind of combination. Which is weird to me because I feel complicated about most things.

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

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.

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.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

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

Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.

I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.

A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.

The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.

I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent.

The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.