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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Art can contradict Science.
— Austin Osman Spare
Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
— Blaise Pascal
One does not contradict the other.Straight-faced is the basis of all decent comedy.
— Christoph Waltz
The theory must not contradict empirical facts,
— Albert Einstein
The best way to contradict him is to let him talk
— Edward St. Aubyn
The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
— Alexander Cockburn
I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)
— Sarah Bakewell
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
He looked at her, and she couldn't contradict him. Nor could she offer any false reassurance. Silence, at least, was honest.
— Tess Gerritsen
I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.
— Michel De Montaigne
It is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.
— Myrtle Reed
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
We should be able to refuse enchanting proposals and opportunities, if they contradict God's principles
— Sunday Adelaja
Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!)
— John Arbuthnot
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
Never contradict anybody," he was advised by Franklin, whom he admired above all men, though it was advice he hardly needed.
— David McCullough
Aeduan didn't contradict her. She was what she was, and fighting one's nature only brought pain. Sometimes death too.
— Susan Dennard
If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives.
— Kate Zambreno
I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.
— Paul Auster
Legend does not contradict history. It preserves the fundamental after but magnifies and embellishes it.
— Adrien Rouquette
Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
— Naguib Mahfouz
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
Your eyes will contradict your words if your words contradict your thoughts and feelings.
— Sam Owen
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
It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.
— George Jean Nathan
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
Universality and particularity do not contradict one another but require one another. How
— Lesslie Newbigin
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
Human beings in stressful relationships will frequently behave in ways that contradict or even reverse their own most certain expectations.
— Donald Antrim
The demands of Sex Privatization contradict the demands of the Beauty Ideal, causing the severe feminine neurosis about personal appearance.
— Shulamith Firestone
Grandma Alice insists he's alive, and my mother raised me never to contradict anyone who regularly carries grenades).
— Seanan McGuire
Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free market.
— Ha-Joon Chang
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
All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things.
— Robert Creeley
No. They believe we're dumb animals. And they won't contradict their bigotry by listening with their own ears.
— Ursley Kempe
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Allow me to contradict my clarifications and in no time we'll get to the bottom of nothing.
— Brian Spellman
Only fools don't contradict themselves
— Andre Gide
We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Read,not to believe, contradict or complement, but to understand.
— Debasish Mridha
Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them.
— Epictetus
Two religions cannot both be right, because they contradict each other, yet they can both be wrong.
— Richard Dawkins
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
— George Santayana
Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.
— Samuel Johnson
Her thoughts, loosen by solitude, often burst these days through her unconscious lips; and often contradict one another ( ... )
— Salman Rushdie
To hope is to contradict the future.
— Emile M. Cioran
Too many theorists have a tendency to ignore facts that contradict their convictions.
— Maurice Allais
Life and death have equal authority in nature. When laws contradict so fundamentally they cause mere confusion in the average soul
— Steve Aylett
Our religion will not clash with nor contradict the facts of science in any particular.
— Brigham Young
I've said that anyone who doesn't contradict himself is a dogmatist, and every dogmatist is a reactionary.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Next time there would be no mercy. He looked round fiercely, daring them to contradict.
— William Golding
It must be wonderful sport to contradict each other.
— Juliana Of The Netherlands
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
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
