Top 262 Contradict Quotes & Sayings

I am paraphrasing Einstein. I love to do that: nobody dares contradict me.

Proverbs contradict each other. That is the wisdom of a nation.

Art can contradict Science.

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.

If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.

Never contradict anybody.

All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things.

Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection.

To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today.

To hope is to contradict the future.

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.

His speech failed to rouse an enthusiastic cheer, but no one dared contradict him.

It's easy to pretend expertise when there's no data to contradict you.

We will not hesitate to speak out when we see actions that contradict those values.

We are not against religions. This country is the cradle of prophecy and the true message and we will not contradict this.

It is one of Miss Manners's great discoveries that one needn't contradict others in order to set them straight.

The theory must not contradict empirical facts.

Contradict yourself. In order to live, you must remain broken up.

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.

An entirely honest man, in the severe sense of the word, exists no more than an entirely dishonest knave: the best and the worst are only approximations of those qualities. Who are those that never contradict themselves? yet honesty never contradicts itself: Who are those that always contradict themselves? yet knavery is mere self-contradiction. Thus the knowledge of man determines not the things themselves, but their proportions, the quan?tum of congruities and incongruities.

I may contradict myself, but at least I don't contradict myself.

What's true will never contradict what's true. Article 2 of the Belgic Confession, based on Psalm 19, Romans 1, and several other texts, declares that God has given us two reliable revelations: the words of Scripture and the facts of nature. Thus, it would be impossible for the facts of nature ever to contradict the words of the Bible.

I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.

Too many theorists have a tendency to ignore facts that contradict their convictions.

Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.

The person you are most afraid to contradict is yourself.

I've heard it said that the first law of journalism is to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

Intuition transcends reason, but does not contradict it

Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I can bear it.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

There is a great difference between the irreconcilable and the self-contradict ory.

Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.

I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him.

I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday.

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to contradict.

China has proven that the wellbeing of citizens in a country doesn't necessarily contradict its engagement globally.

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

If the search is for examples that contradict the predictions of standard economic models, a good rule of thumb is to start in France.

Our religion will not clash with nor contradict the facts of science in any particular.

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.

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, and to oppose your opinion to theirs, do it with so much mildness and tact, as not to appear to do violence to their mind, for nothing is ever gained by taking up things with excessive warmth and hastiness.

You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture.

We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed.

Two truths cannot contradict one another.

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

One does not contradict the other.Straight-faced is the basis of all decent comedy.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free market.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

Only fools don't contradict themselves

I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

It must be wonderful sport to contradict each other.

Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them.