Contradicting Quotes

• Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

  Benjamin Franklin

  People, Victory, Would Be

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.106

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• I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop

  Samuel Johnson

  Thinking, Bishops, Should

  Dr. Samuel Johnson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Johnson (Illustrated)”, p.8562, Delphi Classics

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• Avoid contradicting in general, especially people you love.

  Maurice Baring

  People, Advice

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• Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses of successive existences, whilst the historian of man is constantly at fault as to dates and even the sequence of events, to say nothing of the contradicting statements which he is forced to reconcile.

  Roderick Murchison

  Science, Men, Events

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• Facts are certainly the solid and true foundation of all sectors of nature study ... Reasoning must never find itself contradicting definite facts; but reasoning must allow us to distinguish, among facts that have been reported, those that we can fully believe, those that are questionable, and those that are false. It will not allow us to lend faith to those that are directly contrary to others whose certainty is known to us; it will not allow us to accept as true those that fly in the face of unquestionable principles.

  Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur

  Faith, Nature, Believe

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• We who live in free market societies believe that growth and prosperity, and ultimately human fulfillment are created from the bottom up, not the government down.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Government, People

  "A MAN TRUE TO HIS WORD".

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• The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.

  Albert Einstein

  Truth, Future, Science

  Albert Einstein (2002). “The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein: The Berlin years, writings, 1918-1921”

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• Nietzsche said that the earth has been a madhouse long enough. Without contradicting him we might perhaps soften the expression, and say that philosophy has been long enough an asylum for enthusiasts.

  George Santayana

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Expression

  George Santayana (1998). “The Genteel Tradition: Nine Essays”, p.116, U of Nebraska Press

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• I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Cold Hearted, Serious, Paradox

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• It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Regret, Men, Rights

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• Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.

  Jules Michelet

  Women, Miracle, Cute Girl

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• The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Leaving, Impossible

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.13, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations - then so much the worse for Maxwell's equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation - well, these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.

  Arthur Eddington

  Hope, Science, Errors

  "The Nature of the Physical World" by Arthur Eddington, (Ch. 4), 1928.

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• I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection

  Tupac Shakur

  Romantic, Greatness, Rapper

  Song: The Eternal Lament

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• Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my work to embody my inherent contradictions.

  Kiki Smith

  Art, Thinking, Creating

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• As I have heard, since my arrival at this place, a circumstantial account of my death and dying speech, I take this early opportunity of contradicting the first, and of assuring you, that I have not as yet composed the latter. But by the All-Powerful Dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, although death was leveling my companions on every side of me!

  George Washington

  Horse, Powerful, Opportunity

  Washington Irving, George Washington (1904). “Life of George Washington”

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• One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.

  Billy Collins

  Self, Differences, Poetry

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• There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

  Herbert Spencer

  Wisdom, Ignorance, Science

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• But me contradicting a news story is not going to make my words fact. It will just create a new news story.

  Megan Fox

  News Stories, Facts, News

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you want to attract something into your life, make sure your actions don’t contradict your desires.. Think about what you have asked for, and make sure that your actions are mirroring what you expect to receive, and that they’re not contradicting what you‘ve asked for. Act as if you are receiving it. Do exactly what you would do if you were receiving it today, and take actions in your life to reflect that powerful expectation. Make room to receive your desires, and as you do, you are sending out that powerful signal of expectation.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Powerful, Thinking, Expectations

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• Truths may clash without contradicting each other.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Truth, May, Clash

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• The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

  Aristophanes

  Love, Respect, Teacher

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• How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dog, Honesty, Humor

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• I don’t have any mottoes. If I did I would forever be contradicting them.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Forever, Ifs

  Lisa Kleypas (2011). “Scandal In Spring: Number 4 in series”, p.67, Hachette UK

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• I do feel the weight of being the steward of the greatest sport the world ever came up with. I grew up with a love and admiration for it, so I feel an obligation to portray it as electric and terrifying and exciting and beautiful, and all these sometimes contradicting things that make hockey what it is.

  Jay Baruchel

  Beautiful, Sports, Hockey

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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