Top 78 Contradict Me Quotes
#1. I am paraphrasing Einstein. I love to do that: nobody dares contradict me.
Studs Terkel
#2. I am for the most part so convinced that everything is lacking in basis, consequence, justification, that if someone dared to contradict me, even the man I most admire, he would seem to me a charlatan or a fool.
Emil Cioran
#3. 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 contrary and you did not bother to contradict me. I thought you might be ill.
Deanna Raybourn
#4. 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
#5. Alright ... what do you want me to say? Do you want me to say it's funny, so you can contradict me and say it's sad? Or do you want me to say it's sad so you can turn around and say no, it's funny. You can play that damn little game any way you want to, you know!
Edward Albee
#6. When I turn my eye inward, I find nothing but doubt and ignorance. All the world conspires to oppose and contradict me; though such is my weakness, that I feel all my opinions loosen and fall of themselves, when unsupported by the approbation of others.
David Hume
#7. I have been granted the terrible privilege of deciding what would have happened with no one left to contradict me. And maybe I am absolutely wrong.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#8. The great thing about making yourself the villain is nobody's likely to contradict you.
Peter Watts
#9. He was out of his mind," said Atticus. "Don't like to contradict you, Mr. Finch - wasn't crazy - mean as hell. Low-down skunk with enough liquor in him to make him brave enough to kill children. He'd never have met you face to face.
Harper Lee
#10. How to read writers on writing: With respect, amusement, and skepticism. They will contradict one another-as they should-for each writer brings an individual history to the writing task. There is no single theology here.
Donald Murray
#11. 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
#12. I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
Marcel Duchamp
#13. As J. B. S. Haldane said when asked what evidence might contradict evolution, 'Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian.
Richard Dawkins
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. Please don't worry that yoga will contradict your religious belief systems, as Pranashama Yoga embraces all religions and beliefs systems. I believe we are all One and that Love is the highest truth. Love is my Religion.
Dashama Konah Gordon
#17. Allow me to contradict my clarifications and in no time we'll get to the bottom of nothing.
Brian Spellman
#18. Two truths cannot contradict one another.
Ibn Rushd
#19. 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
#20. (...) one man will look another in the face, with the impudent assurance that he will never see anything but a miserable resemblance of himself; and this is just what he will see, as he cannot grasp anything beyond it. Hence the bold way in which one man will contradict another.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#21. Aeduan didn't contradict her. She was what she was, and fighting one's nature only brought pain. Sometimes death too.
Susan Dennard
#22. His view of the world featured swift disasters set against a background of lurking doom, my cooking did nothing to contradict it.
Margaret Atwood
#23. How can I teach your children gentleness and mercy to the weak, and reverence for life, which in its nakedness and excess, is still a gleam of God's omnipotence, when by your laws, your actions and your speech, you contradict the very things I teach?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#24. The demands of Sex Privatization contradict the demands of the Beauty Ideal, causing the severe feminine neurosis about personal appearance.
Shulamith Firestone
#25. I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday.
Wendell Phillips
#26. 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
#27. Grandma Alice insists he's alive, and my mother raised me never to contradict anyone who regularly carries grenades).
Seanan McGuire
#28. If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.
Michel De Montaigne
#29. It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.
George Jean Nathan
#30. I know that everyone who listens to radio creates you in a visual image that they need you to have. Whatever that is, I thought, let them have it. Let me be who the listener needs me to be and let me not contradict that with the reality of my photograph and risk disappointing them.
Terry Gross
#31. Come now, my lord. Can we not have a bit of fun with him? (Knight)
My idea of amusement is disemboweling those who contradict and annoy me. What say you that you and I have a bit of fun? (Sin)
Kinley MacGregor
#32. A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.
Thomas Malthus
#33. I never notice what is said about me. I am credited with things I have never done, and abused for them. It would be idle to attempt to contradict newspaper talk and street rumors.
Jay Gould
#34. I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.
Criss Jami
#35. No. They believe we're dumb animals. And they won't contradict their bigotry by listening with their own ears.
Ursley Kempe
#36. "And" seems to me closest. "And" nods toward the real. And "and" is the path to perspective. To feel and see from more angles and know all of them true, even the incomprehensible ones, even the ones that contradict one another.
Jane Hirshfield
#37. Really,Mia,"she said. "You know I don't like to contradict your grandmother ... "
This was the biggest lie I'd heard since the Prince of Liechtenstein told me I waltzed divinely,but I let it slide,on account of Mom's condition.
Meg Cabot
#38. 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
#39. My opinion - nay more, my conviction- is that, in the present state of science, as you rightly say, spontaneous generation is a chimera ; and it would be impossible for you to contradict
me, for my experiments all stand forth to prove that spontaneous generation is a chimera.
Louis Pasteur
#40. If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives.
Kate Zambreno
#41. It is ridiculous to sue the president on a Wednesday because he oversteps the law, as he has done a dozen times illegally and unconstitutionally, and then on a Thursday say that he should overstep the law, contradict the law that passed in 2008 and deal with this himself.
Charles Krauthammer
#42. 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
#43. Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite.
Jonathan Swift
#44. For God to forgive sinners without the full penalty being paid would contradict His justice and make Him our partner in evil. Christ fully paid that penalty for our sins
but the pardon must be willingly and gladly received. God will not force anyone into heaven.
Dave Hunt
#45. If God declares that all is well, ten thousand devils may declare it to be ill, but we laugh them all to scorn. Blessed be God for a faith which enables us to believe God when the creatures contradict Him.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#46. Intuition transcends reason, but does not contradict it
Sivananda
#47. I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That is the one way I have of asserting my liberty, the real liberty one does not find as a member of society.
Man Ray
#48. Human beings in stressful relationships will frequently behave in ways that contradict or even reverse their own most certain expectations.
Donald Antrim
#49. 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
#50. Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.
Samuel Johnson
#51. I've said that anyone who doesn't contradict himself is a dogmatist, and every dogmatist is a reactionary.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#52. 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
#53. It is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.
Myrtle Reed
#55. Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)
Sarah Bakewell
#56. Many sweat to reconcile St Paul and St James, but in vain. 'Faith justifies' and 'faith does not justify' contradict each other flatly. If any one can harmonize them I will give him my doctor's hood and let him call me a fool.
Martin Luther
#57. It was one of the rules which above all others made Doctr. Franklin the most amiable of men in society, never to contradict anybody.
Thomas Jefferson
#58. Remember Bacon's recommendation to the reader: Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
Mortimer J. Adler
#59. it is clear that divine sovereignty and human freedom contradict each other.[16] If God controls everything, including man's thoughts, then man is not free from God. If man is free from God in any sense or to any degree, then God does not control everything.
Vincent Cheung
#60. Legend does not contradict history. It preserves the fundamental after but magnifies and embellishes it.
Adrien Rouquette
#61. Attempts to settle crises by unilateral sanctions outside the framework of U.N. Security Council decisions threaten international peace and stability. Such attempts are counterproductive and contradict the norms and principles of international law.
Sergei Lavrov
#62. 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
#63. I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him.
Studs Terkel
#64. We all really do contradict ourselves and contain multitudes. How do we even figure out who we really are?
Jenn Bennett
#65. Before you have faith you must believe, and before you believe there must be evidence of some sort to persuade the mind. Faith is remembering that evidence and holding to it against all that seems to challenge or contradict it.
John Christopher
#66. Political beliefs, religious beliefs, and conspiratorial beliefs seem impenetrable to facts that contradict them.
Robert Carroll
#67. 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
#68. Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.
Georges Bataille
#69. 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, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.
Madeleine L'Engle
#70. 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
#71. Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light; for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop.
Michel De Montaigne
#73. 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 think through what they say but merely to speak, just so long as they contradict our arguments in any way they can.
Augustine Of Hippo
#74. The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.
Albert Einstein
#75. All those religions
they contradict each other on every point but every one of them is filled with ways to help people to be brave enough to laugh even though they know they are dying.
Robert A. Heinlein
#76. I cannot agree with those who say that they have 'new truth' to teach. The two words seem to me to contradict each other; that
which is new is not true. It is the old that is true, for truth is as old as God himself.
Charles Spurgeon
#77. O blessed be the grace that makes advantages of my corruptions, even to contradict and kill themselves (648).
Richard Baxter
#78. God, in His wrath, has not left this world to the mercy of the subtlest dialectician; and all arguments are happily transitory in their effect when they contradict the primal intuitions of conscience and the inborn sentiments of the heart.
Edwin Percy Whipple
