Best Contradict Quotations
156 Contradict quotes by 142 unique authors
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It is one of Miss Manners's great discoveries that one needn't contradict others in order to set them straight.
— Judith Martin
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I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.
— Criss Jami
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We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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[Copernicus] did not ignore the Bible, but he knew very well that if his doctrine were proved, then it could not contradict the Scriptures when…
— Galileo Galilei
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I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13, 1524…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
— Marcel Duchamp
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In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn't play good, or accidents happen…
— John Hench
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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
— William James
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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…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.
— George Jean Nathan
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Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
— Blaise Pascal
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Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if…
— Leo Rosten
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Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
— George Santayana
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A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
— George Bernard Shaw
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I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him.
— Studs Terkel
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Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
— Walt Whitman
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
— Oscar Wilde
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I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That is the one…
— Man Ray
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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some…
— Francis Bacon
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Only fools don't contradict themselves
— Andre Gide
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I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Our religion will not clash with nor contradict the facts of science in any particular.
— Brigham Young
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As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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