If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
One does not contradict the other.Straight-faced is the basis of all decent comedy. — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!) — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
“What again could this astonishing thing be like which people were so anxious to contradict, that in doing so they did not… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“No need to be intimidated, tesoro, but do be careful." "See, those two statements seem like they contradict each other to me,… — elizabeth hunter Copy Share Image
“Read Not to Contradict Or Confute Nor To Believe Or Take For Granted But To Weigh And Consider Oh the side of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives. — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
“As long as she persisted in her belief that bafflement justified her actions, she felt confident no one would contradict her.” — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
I claim the right to contradict myself. I don't want to deprive myself of the right to talk nonsense, and I ask… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
That's your responsibility as a person, as a human being - to constantly be updating your positions on as many things as… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
There are two consequences in history; an immediate one, which is instantly recognized, and one in the distance, which is not at… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
How often do we contradict the right rules of reason in the whole course of our lives! Reason itself is true and… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Very well, then: why are you attached to any one book, or to the words and ways of one saint when he… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that… — Parker Palmer Copy Share Image
Even putting aside the Judeo-Christian morality upon which the Constitution and our nations culture are based, the notion of forced euthanasia would… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That… — Man Ray Copy Share Image
“Life is a time span where people mostly do not see the wood for the trees, wondering what may be the accurate… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
In the ordinary, everyday understandings of the words involved, to say that someone survived death is to contradict yourself; while to assert… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
“BLACK AND WHITE I was born into A religion of Light, But with so many other Religions and Philosophies, How do I… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Perhaps some of my hearers this evening may have occasionally heard it stated of me that I am rather apt to contradict… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
We will not hesitate to speak out when we see actions that contradict those values. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“variety is the spice of life, a truth which, of course, every happy marriage seems to contradict.” — Theodor Fontane Copy Share Image
Mark my words, there will be a day that will come when you will all see many, many documents that will directly… — Darl McBride Copy Share Image
I have this idea of myself as this quiet, observant, thoughtful child, which my parents roundly contradict. They claim that I was… — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
Some, merely to contradict what I had said, did not scruple to cast doubt upon things they had seen with their own… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
