Contradict Quotes

I may contradict myself, but at least I don't contradict myself. — Stephen Hawking

I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. — Martin Luther

We contradict all for which we stand for we all stand for the lie the whole lie and nothing but the lie so help save our lying asses. — Brian Spellman

Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves. — Antonio Machado

The truth does not contradict facts. — John Winsor

When our feelings and observations contradict, problems arise. — M.H. Rakib

Christ taught us truth; the Devil teaches us falsehood, and strives in every way to contradict every truth; devising various calumnies against it. — John Of Kronstadt

Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannise their teachers. — Socrates

Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Two truths cannot contradict one another. — Ibn Rushd

The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions. — Albert Einstein

Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another. — Jules Verne

It was one of the rules which above all others made Doctr. Franklin the most amiable of men in society, never to contradict anybody. — Thomas Jefferson

Faith does not contradict reason. Faith exceeds reason. — Mark Hart

His view of the world featured swift disasters set against a background of lurking doom, my cooking did nothing to contradict it. — Margaret Atwood

The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to contradict. — W. Somerset Maugham

Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory. — Richard P. Feynman

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. — An Wang

It is one of Miss Manners's great discoveries that one needn't contradict others in order to set them straight. — Judith Martin

I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself. — Criss Jami

Sometimes, I think we're afraid to admit we want certain things. Especially things that contradict the image we have of ourselves. — Debbie Macomber

We all really do contradict ourselves and contain multitudes. How do we even figure out who we really are? — Jenn Bennett

It's easy to pretend expertise when there's no data to contradict you. — Seth Godin

Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not, at every turn, what others say. — George Washington

I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. — Marcel Duchamp

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. — Oscar Wilde

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. — William James

I say things that contradict each other, that are in real tension with each other, that compose me, that make me live, and that will make me die. — Jacques Derrida

A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him. — Thomas Malthus

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