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This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't. -- Douglas Hofstadter
We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad. -- Hans Eysenck
If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing. -- Miguel de Unamuno
When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both. -- Al Franken
One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
We want to believe racism is an artifact of the past, and if you have a political massacre, that contradicts that. -- Ta-Nehisi Coates
We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. -- An Wang
Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is. -- Oriana Fallaci
When your voice contradicts reality and truth, the only way to create space for it is to discredit reality and truth. -- John Yarmuth
Perhaps an eccentric is just off centre - ex-centric. But that contradicts a belief of mine that we've got to be centrifugal. -- Margaret Rutherford
No apparent, perceived, or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the Scriptural record. -- Ken Ham
Ever since I left Northern Ireland, I've always been pretty comfortable on my own, which contradicts a lot of people's perceptions of me. -- James Nesbitt
The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being. -- Vernor Vinge
I'm often reassured in a bizarre - perhaps perverse - way when I find in the archive stuff that contradicts what my assumptions have been. That's interesting and exciting. -- Antony Beevor
Memory likes to play hide-and-seek, to crawl away. It tends to hold forth, to dress up, often needlessly. Memory contradicts itself; pedant that it is, it will have its way. -- Gunter Grass
The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market. -- George Soros
My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true. -- John Astin
I have always marveled that so many religions exact such revenge against dissenters. It only weakens the appeal of their faith and contradicts any claims they might have made that 'all religions are basically the same.' -- Ravi Zacharias
Your senses are reeling all the time. Finally you find something to write and the very next day you go out and see something else which totally contradicts what you've written and every conclusion you've come to. -- Charles Dance
The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense. -- William J. Clinton
I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science. All beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter. -- Alan Lightman
All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long. -- Wilson Mizner
I have always marveled that so many religions exact such revenge against dissenters. It only weakens the appeal of their faith and contradicts any claims they might have made that 'all religions are basically the same.' If all religions were indeed the same, why not let someone be 'converted' to another religion? -- Ravi Zacharias
I think of talent as being God-given. I know that contradicts what a lot of people believe, but that's how I see it. I think the Beatles were meant to be, you know? So when I listen to Paul McCartney, I think, 'Here's the person that God gave the gift of allowing him to write 'Let It Be.' -- Brandon Flowers
Truth is what most contradicts itself. -- Lawrence Durrell
All true knowledge contradicts common sense. -- Mandell Creighton
Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned. -- Dalai Lama
Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Whatsoever contradicts my sense, I hate to see, and never can believe. -- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life. -- Wendell Berry
Whatever contradicts the Word of God should be instantly resisted as diabolical. -- John Bunyan
When I'm carried away, isn't it clear that my heart contradicts my mouth? -- Jean Racine
Question reality, especially if it contradicts the evidence of your hopes and dreams. -- Robert Breault
Contraception contradicts the full truth of the sexual act as the proper expression of conjugal love. -- Pope John Paul II
Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me. -- Thomas a Kempis
I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me! -- Oscar Wilde
If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all. -- Erwin Schrodinger
Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved. -- Henri Nouwen
Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly. -- Mark Thomas
When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him. -- Elisabeth Elliot
When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of earth. -- Leif Enger
We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. -- An Wang
An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror. -- Edmund Burke
Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing. -- Elbert Hubbard
We should all reevaluate advertising that contradicts what we know to be the truth; especially when the ads are harmfully manipulative. -- Christy Turlington
No apparent, perceived, or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the Scriptural record, -- Ken Ham
I we are born to die and we all die to live, then what's the point of living life if it just contradicts? -- Ronnie Radke
The principle of natural selection is absolutely incompatible with the word of God. [It] contradicts the revealed relations of creation to its Creator. -- Samuel Wilberforce
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
My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the death penalty contradicts this. -- Dalai Lama
Like the Bible-a document that often contradicts itself and from which one can construct sharply different arguments-theology is the product of human hands and hearts. -- Jon Meacham
The theist is persuaded that while nothing that contradicts science is likely to be true, still nothing that stops with science can be the whole truth. -- Gordon Allport
To be fertile in hypotheses is the first perquisite of creativity and to be willing to throw them away the moment experience contradicts them is the next. -- William James
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Nature takes the decision first, man agrees, reconciles, modifies, refutes, contradicts etc., subsequently. It means the application of reason, the discretionary power of a man, only happens afterwards! -- Thiruman Archunan
Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of the present hour. -- Richard Steele
On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in the checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite. -- Emanuel Lasker
When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted. -- Claude Bernard
When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
There has been little or no mention of the vast body of law which contradicts your position. I think you owe it to the people whom you address to explain its existence. -- Frankie Sue Del Papa
I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it. -- George Bernard Shaw
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
Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself. -- George Santayana
The disciplined Christian will be very careful what sort of counsel he seeks from others. Counsel that contradicts the written Word is ungodly counsel. Blessed is the man that walketh not in that. -- Elisabeth Elliot
When experience contradicts firmly held judgments of self-efficacy, people may not change their beliefs about themselves if the conditions of performance are such as to lead them to discount the import of the experience -- Albert Bandura
If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings. -- Leonardo da Vinci
This kind of split makes me crazy, this territorializing of the holy. Here God may dwell. Here God may not dwell. It contradicts everything in my experience, which says: God dwells where I dwell. Period. -- Nancy Mairs

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