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156 Contradict quotes by 142 unique authors
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Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts,…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may…
— Carl Sagan
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I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare,…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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His speech failed to rouse an enthusiastic cheer, but no one dared contradict him.
— Kenneth Oppel
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When you want to attract something into your life, make sure your actions don’t contradict your desires.. Think about what you have asked for, and…
— Rhonda Byrne
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Facts mean little compared to attitudes. To contradict rumor or sentiment is as futile as arguing against a believer's faith in the Immaculate Conception. You…
— Milan Kundera
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The Photograph is violent: not because it shows violent tings, but because on each occasion (i)it fills the sight by force(i), and because in it…
— Roland Barthes
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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…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions.
— Paul Valery
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The theory must not contradict empirical facts,
— Albert Einstein
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I do believe I begin to grasp the nature of miracles! For would it be a miracle, if there was any reason for it? Miracles…
— Ellis Peters
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It comforts me to think that if we are created beings the thing that created us would have to be greater than us, so much…
— Donald Miller
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So long as you do no harm to another, change your opinion once in a while. Contradict yourself without being embarrassed. This is your right.…
— Paulo Coelho
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If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get…
— Dale Carnegie
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When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But an…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Nobody dares to solve the problems-because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for most people clinging to beliefs is more important than succeeding in…
— Michael Crichton
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After a moment, he turned sharply to me. 'Are you quite all right?' 'Yes, perfectly. Why do you ask?' 'Because I have just called you…
— Deanna Raybourn
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I take leave to contradict those who say that salvation is an evolution! All that ever can be evolved out of the sinful heart of…
— Charles Spurgeon
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You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is…
— Marquis de Sade
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Good morning. You have a moment?" It's clever the way she says it, not as a question. I would have to contradict her in order…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men…
— C.S. Lewis
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When we must pay the true price for the depletion of nature’s gifts, materials will become more precious to us, and economic logic will reinforce,…
— Charles Eisenstein
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I was lying, but I wanted to rouse him. I have an inborn urge to contradict; my whole life has been a mere chain of…
— Mikhail Lermontov
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You will find ambiguity a great ally on your road to power. Give a sign of Slytherin on one day, and contradict it with a…
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
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