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Contradict yourself. In order to live, you must remain broken up. -- Wyndham Lewis
Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not, at every turn, what others say. -- George Washington
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. It doesn't matter what others think -because that's what they will think, in any case. -- Paulo Coelho
I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget. -- Benjamin Disraeli
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him. -- George Bernard Shaw
Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other. -- Blaise Pascal
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. -- Oscar Wilde
I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him. -- Studs Terkel
Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization. -- Naguib Mahfouz
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. -- George Santayana
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. -- Walt Whitman
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. -- Marcel Duchamp
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider. -- Francis Bacon
I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive. -- Paul Auster
A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him. -- Thomas Malthus
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. -- William James
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on. -- George Jean Nathan
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
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 this. -- Soren Kierkegaard
I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation. -- Vladimir Kramnik
As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul. -- Catharine Beecher
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 and dancing all the time. -- Carrie Coon
Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect. -- Parker Palmer
Even putting aside the Judeo-Christian morality upon which the Constitution and our nation's culture are based, the notion of forced euthanasia would contradict the long-held body of medical ethics to which all American doctors must adhere. -- Sherwin B. Nuland
I think the existence of zombies would contradict certain laws of nature in our world. It seems to be a law of nature, in our world, that when you get a brain of a certain character you get consciousness going along with it. -- David Chalmers
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 we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. -- Leo Rosten
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 continuously. Many things contradict what you are trying to say. But in cartoons, nothing contradict what you want to say. -- John Hench
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 about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict. -- Nathan Bedford Forrest
Never contradict anybody. -- Benjamin Franklin
Art can contradict Science. -- Austin Osman Spare
Only fools don't contradict themselves -- Andre Gide
Two truths cannot contradict one another. -- Galileo Galilei
To hope is to contradict the future. -- Emile M. Cioran
The theory must not contradict empirical facts, -- Albert Einstein
Intuition transcends reason, but does not contradict it -- Sivananda
Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory. -- Richard P. Feynman
Faith does not contradict reason. Faith exceeds reason. -- Mark Hart
It must be wonderful sport to contradict each other. -- Juliana of the Netherlands
The person you are most afraid to contradict is yourself. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Read,not to believe, contradict or complement, but to understand. -- Debasish Mridha
Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions. -- Paul Valery
Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I can bear it. -- Walt Whitman
Proverbs contradict each other. That is the wisdom of a nation. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
I may contradict myself, but at least I don't contradict myself. -- Stephen Hawking
There is a great difference between the irreconcilable and the self-contradict ory. -- Charles Hodge
Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another. -- Jules Verne
It's easy to pretend expertise when there's no data to contradict you. -- Seth Godin
To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today. -- Witold Gombrowicz
If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Too many theorists have a tendency to ignore facts that contradict their convictions. -- Maurice Allais
The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it. -- Alexander Cockburn
I am paraphrasing Einstein. I love to do that: nobody dares contradict me. -- Studs Terkel
Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!) -- John Arbuthnot
His speech failed to rouse an enthusiastic cheer, but no one dared contradict him. -- Kenneth Oppel
One does not contradict the other.Straight-faced is the basis of all decent comedy. -- Christoph Waltz
Legend does not contradict history. It preserves the fundamental after but magnifies and embellishes it. -- Adrien Rouquette
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. -- Socrates
Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them. -- Epictetus
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. -- Martin Luther
Be open to learning new lessons, even if they contradict the lessons you learned yesterday. -- Ellen DeGeneres
Our religion will not clash with nor contradict the facts of science in any particular. -- Brigham Young
We will not hesitate to speak out when we see actions that contradict those values. -- Barack Obama
I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday. -- Wendell Phillips
Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free market. -- Ha-Joon Chang
Two religions cannot both be right, because they contradict each other, yet they can both be wrong. -- Richard Dawkins
If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives. -- Kate Zambreno
Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves. -- Antonio Machado
I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict. -- Michel de Montaigne
Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct. -- Samuel Johnson
Im a shy person. I contradict my own profession, because Im an introvert in a very glamorous world. -- Deepika Padukone
It is one of Miss Manners's great discoveries that one needn't contradict others in order to set them straight. -- Judith Martin
I've heard it said that the first law of journalism is to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it. -- Linda Ellerbee
I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself. -- Criss Jami
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions. -- Albert Einstein
I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes, I think we're afraid to admit we want certain things. Especially things that contradict the image we have of ourselves. -- Debbie Macomber
We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. -- An Wang
We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. -- An Wang
The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for, and will not contradict. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
it is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs. -- Myrtle Reed
We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads. -- Harold Bloom
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
If the search is for examples that contradict the predictions of standard economic models, a good rule of thumb is to start in France. -- Robert H. Frank
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
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
The fact of the existence of two theories [causal and acausal] that contradict each other in Jung ... corresponds psychologically to the vascillation between 3 and 4. -- Wolfgang Pauli
When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law. -- Frederic Bastiat
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 today. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When Fashion hath once Established, what Folly or craft began, Custom makes it Sacred, and 'twill be thought impudence or madness, to contradict or question it. -- John Locke
No legislative, administrative or judicial activity in the Hong Kong SAR is allowed to contradict the Basic Law, let alone to go against the Basic Law. -- Wu Bangguo
Some, merely to contradict what I had said, did not scruple to cast doubt upon things they had seen with their own eyes again and again. -- Galileo Galilei
Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers. -- Aristotle
The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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 the world. -- Michael Crichton
Mark my words, there will be a day that will come when you will all see many, many documents that will directly contradict IBM's current public posturing. -- Darl McBride
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 no love. -- John of the Cross
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, requires it. -- Pope Francis
I say things that contradict each other, that are in real tension with each other, that compose me, that make me live, and that will make me die. -- Jacques Derrida
beware how you contradict prejudices, even knowing them to be such, for the generality of people are much more tenacious of their prejudices than of anything belonging to them ... -- Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
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 fit to be masters. -- C. S. Lewis
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 your opponent's good will. -- Dale Carnegie
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 meaning of my life. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
One of my principal concerns is the contradiction between appearance and reality - illusion and reality. I try to set up an expectation of sorts and then contradict it. -- Stuart Pearson Wright
[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 they were rightly understood. -- Galileo Galilei
All the magazines contradict each other because it is so diverse. Know what you like, know what looks good on you and keep doing it, no reason to chase trends. -- Tim Gunn
I claim the right to contradict myself. I don't want to deprive myself of the right to talk nonsense, and I ask humbly to be allowed to be wrong sometimes. -- Federico Fellini
I think as human beings we contradict our feelings constantly, we make mistakes, but I think ultimately it comes down to actions to define how we feel about each other. -- Charlyne Yi
If you read any of the biographies on J. Edgar Hoover, you find that they contradict each other more than they agree. Often times, they're often told from a political perspective. -- Clint Eastwood
To say that Reagan teaches us that we should be against amnesty for illegal immigrants is to contradict what Reagan himself stood for - that he was in favor of amnesty. -- Eugene Jarecki
One of the distinguishing characteristics of the true work of art is that it is able to both contain and express different meanings - meanings which may in fact contradict each other. -- Edward Lucie-Smith
For faith, properly understood, does not contradict reason in the least; indeed...it is nothing less than the will to keep one's mind fixed precisely on what reason has discovered to it. -- Edward Feser
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 on matters of fact, religion must yield. -- Frank Wilczek

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