
Assertion is not argument; to
contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct. —
Samuel Johnson

Only fools don't
contradict themselves —
Andre Gide

Allow me to
contradict my clarifications and in no time we'll get to the bottom of nothing. —
Brian Spellman

People who honestly mean to be true really
contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'. —
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

No. They believe we're dumb animals. And they won't
contradict their bigotry by listening with their own ears. —
Ursley Kempe

I am paraphrasing Einstein. I love to do that: nobody dares
contradict me. —
Studs Terkel

All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't
contradict it as a necessary sense of things. —
Robert Creeley

I have been granted the terrible privilege of deciding what would have happened with no one left to
contradict me. And maybe I am absolutely wrong. —
Curtis Sittenfeld

The answer is that it does not matter what you think, the monster said, because your mind will
contradict itself a hundred times each day. —
Patrick Ness

Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not
contradict the free market. —
Ha-Joon Chang

I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares
contradict him. —
Studs Terkel

The demands of Sex Privatization
contradict the demands of the Beauty Ideal, causing the severe feminine neurosis about personal appearance. —
Shulamith Firestone

Human beings in stressful relationships will frequently behave in ways that
contradict or even reverse their own most certain expectations. —
Donald Antrim

If superstition could
contradict science, the world may as well be on the back of a turtle. But giving into turtle worship was a bridge too far. —
Thomm Quackenbush

Universality and particularity do not
contradict one another but require one another. How —
Lesslie Newbigin

Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to
contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads. —
Harold Bloom

It is also said of me that I now and then
contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on. —
George Jean Nathan

The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for, and will not
contradict. —
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our most important thoughts are those that
contradict our emotions. —
Paul Valery

Your eyes will
contradict your words if your words
contradict your thoughts and feelings. —
Sam Owen

Have a great love for those who
contradict and fail to love you, for in this way love is begotten in a heart that has no love. —
San Juan De La Cruz

Grandma Alice insists he's alive, and my mother raised me never to
contradict anyone who regularly carries grenades). —
Seanan McGuire

As long as she persisted in her belief that bafflement justified her actions, she felt confident no one would
contradict her. —
Thomm Quackenbush

O blessed be the grace that makes advantages of my corruptions, even to
contradict and kill themselves (648). —
Richard Baxter

Some, merely to
contradict what I had said, did not scruple to cast doubt upon things they had seen with their own eyes again and again. —
Galileo Galilei

When law and morality
contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law. —
Frederic Bastiat

It must be wonderful sport to
contradict each other. —
Juliana Of The Netherlands

Next time there would be no mercy. He looked round fiercely, daring them to
contradict. —
William Golding

I've said that anyone who doesn't
contradict himself is a dogmatist, and every dogmatist is a reactionary. —
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Our religion will not clash with nor
contradict the facts of science in any particular. —
Brigham Young

Life and death have equal authority in nature. When laws
contradict so fundamentally they cause mere confusion in the average soul —
Steve Aylett

We often
contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed. —
Friedrich Nietzsche

Too many theorists have a tendency to ignore facts that
contradict their convictions. —
Maurice Allais

To hope is to
contradict the future. —
Emile M. Cioran

Her thoughts, loosen by solitude, often burst these days through her unconscious lips; and often
contradict one another ( ... ) —
Salman Rushdie

The writer who's afraid to
contradict himself will never write anything. —
Marty Rubin

Before you
contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. —
George Santayana

Two religions cannot both be right, because they
contradict each other, yet they can both be wrong. —
Richard Dawkins

We will not hesitate to speak out when we see actions that
contradict those values. —
Barack Obama

Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would
contradict them. —
Epictetus

Read,not to believe,
contradict or complement, but to understand. —
Debasish Mridha

People ignore facts which
contradict the theory in the mind of the investor. Dis-confirming evidence must be seeked out to beat this theory. —
Manoj Arora

To God's instructions and teachings! People who
contradict his word are completely in the dark. —
Anonymous

Be open to learning new lessons, even if they
contradict the lessons you learned yesterday. —
Ellen DeGeneres

The theory must not
contradict empirical facts, —
Albert Einstein

I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall
contradict it all. —
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Faith embraces many truths which seem to
contradict each other. —
Blaise Pascal

His speech failed to rouse an enthusiastic cheer, but no one dared
contradict him. —
Kenneth Oppel

Walt Whitman was right about at least one thing. You will
contradict yourself. You are large. You contain multitudes. —
Matt Haig

Art can
contradict Science. —
Austin Osman Spare

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than
contradict it. —
Alexander Cockburn

Never
contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!) —
John Arbuthnot

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and
contradict the needs of civilization. —
Naguib Mahfouz

Legend does not
contradict history. It preserves the fundamental after but magnifies and embellishes it. —
Adrien Rouquette

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

If one writes the rules then one can
contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives. —
Kate Zambreno

Aeduan didn't
contradict her. She was what she was, and fighting one's nature only brought pain. Sometimes death too. —
Susan Dennard

Never
contradict anybody," he was advised by Franklin, whom he admired above all men, though it was advice he hardly needed. —
David McCullough

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to
contradict me in this. —
Soren Kierkegaard

Do I
contradict myself? Very well then I
contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) —
Sarah Bakewell

We should be able to refuse enchanting proposals and opportunities, if they
contradict God's principles —
Sunday Adelaja

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. —
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Children today are tyrants. They
contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. —
Socrates

It is bad manners to
contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs. —
Myrtle Reed

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

He looked at her, and she couldn't
contradict him. Nor could she offer any false reassurance. Silence, at least, was honest. —
Tess Gerritsen

In the Modern Age, there are still those who refuse to
contradict a single word of the Bible, even though the Bible
contradicts itself. —
Jonathan Clements

Intuition transcends reason, but does not
contradict it —
Sivananda

One does not
contradict the other.Straight-faced is the basis of all decent comedy. —
Christoph Waltz

Ideas come in pairs and they
contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection. —
Jean-Paul Sartre

A man never tells you anything until you
contradict him. —
George Bernard Shaw