Best Contradict Quotes
156 Contradict quotes by 142 unique authors
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To hope is to contradict the future.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
— Socrates
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If asked whether you love God, say nothing. This is because if you say, 'I do not love God,'you are an unbeliever. If, on the…
— Al-Fudhayl bin 'Iyyadh
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children…
— Socrates
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Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the…
— Georges Bataille
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Belief Systems contradict both science and ordinary "common sense." B.S. contradicts science, because it claims certitude and science can never achieve certitude: it can only…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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I never notice what is said about me. I am credited with things I have never done, and abused for them. It would be idle…
— Jay Gould
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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…
— John of the Cross
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Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!)
— John Arbuthnot
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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
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense of honor about ideas; he…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of Freemasonry, of its…
— Adam Weishaupt
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Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.
— Samuel Johnson
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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
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To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today.
— Witold Gombrowicz
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When religion talks about our aspirations and our sense of morality, I do not believe that science can contradict it. However, when religion contradicts science…
— Frank Wilczek
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The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.
— Albert Einstein
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That's your responsibility as a person, as a human being - to constantly be updating your positions on as many things as possible. And if…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.
— Malcolm Gladwell
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A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.
— Thomas Malthus
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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
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When he wakes sometimes from dark dreams of broken cradles, and compasses without bearings, he pushes the unease down, lets the daylight contradict it. And…
— M. L. Stedman
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One can study what exists and how consciousness functions; but one cannot analyze (or “prove”) existence as such, or consciousness as such. These are irreducible…
— Ayn Rand
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The Big Bang, which today we hold to be the origin of the world, does not contradict the intervention of the divine creator but, rather,…
— Pope Francis
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