Contradicting Quotes

“What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Once there was a boy with a wicked heart,' the troll woman said.

'No, that's not right,' Cardan interrupted. 'That's not how it goes. He had a wicked tongue.'

'Boys change,' she told him. 'And so do stories.”
― Holly Black, How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

“For most of the year I wore no shoes. This Higher Power was my guide, but it seemed to be just as confused about the world as I was. Eventually, I realized that my Higher Power was an ethereal nothingness. It was a collection of lofty ideas that, although beautiful, were not capable of contradicting me, reshaping my paradigms, or defining reality for me. It was a god that appealed to my own sensibilities; it was as ever-changing and subjective as my own mind.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose