Top 54 Contradicts Itself Quotes
#1. Each religion necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself. Religions, like languages, are necessary rivals. What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.
George Santayana
#2. It almost contradicts itself," she says after a moment. "It's as if there is love and loss at the same time, together in a kind of beautiful pain.
Eric Morgenstern
#3. 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
#4. Any system that contradicts itself can never be wrong, and welcome to the world of contradictions ...
Steve Merrick
#5. 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
#6. [People] do not reject the Bible because it contradicts itself but because it contradicts them.
E. Paul Hovey
#7. Everything you say,' Geno said rather irritably, 'contradicts itself.'
'Of course it does,' the screech owl rejoined obscurely. 'Otherwise, how would anyone ever keep to the middle of the road?
Felix Salten
#8. 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
#10. 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
#12. The First Amendment contradicts the First Commandment.
Aron Ra
#13. Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.
Oriana Fallaci
#14. Whatever contradicts the Word of God should be instantly resisted as diabolical.
John Bunyan
#15. When your voice contradicts reality and truth, the only way to create space for it is to discredit reality and truth.
John Yarmuth
#16. Begin with loss and see
how the world contradicts you,
how the horizon implies that beyond it
the water is not empty
but full of ships
all docking at another island.
Lynn Emanuel
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. Speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said today.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#20. I do not think it would be appropriate to use official party resources such as the DNC website on behalf of organizations whose purpose is to reverse the current platform and/or to enact legislation that contradicts that platform.
Terry McAuliffe
#21. Somebody told me when I first got in this business that people believe what they read until somebody prints something that contradicts it. Then they believe both.
Charles Martin
#22. 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
#23. I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!
Oscar Wilde
#24. 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
#25. A preacher may proclaim the grace of God with glorious orthodoxy, but if his life contradicts his doctrine he will disgrace the gospel of Christ (1 Tim 3:7).
Ryan Fullerton
#26. On the unfalsifiable theory of global warming:Evidence that contradicts the global warming theory, climate kooks enlist as evidence for the correctness of their theory; every permutation in weather patterns warm or cold is said to be a consequence of that warming or proof of it.
Ilana Mercer
#27. So if scientists come up with something that contradicts your beliefs, you will change your beliefs?" "Oh yes. Yes.
Dan Harris
#28. We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.
An Wang
#29. When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.
Elisabeth Elliot
#30. We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
#31. 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
#32. An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.
Edmund Burke
#33. We want to believe racism is an artifact of the past, and if you have a political massacre, that contradicts that.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#34. I mean," Minnie continued, "I don't have a problem with anyone who has a disability and wants to find a cure. But I'm good." "Don't you get it?" Flexis argued, "I'm giving you the chance to be normal!" "Your definition of normal severely contradicts mine," Minnie quietly said. Victor's
Burgandi Rakoska
#35. According to Bastardi, human-induced climate change contradicts what we call the 1st law of thermodynamics. Energy can be neither created nor destroyed. So to look for input of energy into the atmosphere, you have to come from a foreign source.
Joe Bastardi
#36. The parliamentary principle of vesting legislative power in the decision of the majority rejects the authority of the individual and puts a numerical quota of anonymous heads in its place. In doing so it contradicts the aristocratic principle, which is a fundamental law of nature.
Adolf Hitler
#37. If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
Miguel De Unamuno
#38. I got entangled in my own data, and my conclusion directly contradicts the original idea from which I start. Starting from unlimited freedom, I conclude with unlimited despotism. I will add, however, that apart from my solution of the social formula, there can be no other.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#39. 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
#40. Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved.
Henri Nouwen
#41. The observant man recognizes many mysteries into which he can not pretend to see, and he remembers that the world is too wide for the eye of one man. But the modern sophists are sure of everything, especially if it contradicts the Bible.
Charles Spurgeon
#42. If you are an entrepreneur planning to start your own company, I can't think of a better place to begin than by operating your business by the Golden Rule. Make this a high priority; never make a decision that contradicts the Golden Rule.
Mary Kay Ash
#43. [A new all-encompassing national identification system] contradicts some of our most sacrosanct American principles of personal liberty and expectations of privacy and is far in excess of what is needed to provide us with the security and protections we all want.
Bill McCollum
#44. We should all reevaluate advertising that contradicts what we know to be the truth; especially when the ads are harmfully manipulative.
Christy Turlington
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
Al Franken
#48. Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each other's food.
Jean Baudrillard
#49. 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
#50. No apparent, perceived, or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the Scriptural record.
Ken Ham
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of earth.
Leif Enger
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