Best Contradict Lines
156 Contradict quotes by 142 unique authors
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Sometimes, I think we're afraid to admit we want certain things. Especially things that contradict the image we have of ourselves.
— Debbie Macomber
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The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the same way when…
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every…
— Virginia Woolf
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I don't view it as mystic. I believe that God is our father. He created us. He is powerful because he knows everything. Therefore everything…
— Clayton Christensen
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You said their prayer - is this the religion you believe in, then?" "I believe in them all." Vin frowned. "None of them contradict each…
— Brandon Sanderson
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That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience. It does not calm the unquiet heart,…
— Jürgen Moltmann
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Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it. No matter how many times…
— Stephen Hawking
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So you see how endlessly futile and fruitless it would be if we wanted to refute their objections every time they obstinately resolved not to…
— Saint Augustine
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In order to avoid contention, never contradict anyone, except in case of sin or some danger to a neighbor; and when necessary to contradict others,…
— Louis IX of France
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Instruction, and advice, and commands will profit little, unless they are backed up by the pattern of your own life. Your children will never believe…
— J C Ryle
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The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new. He will not…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.
— Richard P. Feynman
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To say that Reagan teaches us that we should be against amnesty for illegal immigrants is to contradict what Reagan himself stood for - that…
— Eugene Jarecki
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We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said…
— Nathan Bedford Forrest
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I have this idea of myself as this quiet, observant, thoughtful child, which my parents roundly contradict. They claim that I was loud and bossy…
— Carrie Coon
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Synthesizers were looked at as stealing the soul of music, but then there were these new bands who used it to contradict that idea.
— Brendon Urie
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In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much hesitation.
— Charles Lyell
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You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.
— William Congreve
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We are not against religions. This country is the cradle of prophecy and the true message and we will not contradict this.
— Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud
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Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical…
— Parker J. Palmer
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It is extremely naive to think that mankind is capable of sinning against god. If god exists as a being who watches us, judges us,…
— Unknown Author
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The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the way…
— Susan Sontag
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Don't worry that people contradict you because this is the way that will help you refine your ideas.
— Vikrant Parsai
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Words mean nothing if your actions contradict.
— James Merrow
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All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things.
— Robert Creeley
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