Quotes with contradict

  • A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.

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  • Walt Whitman Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes).
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Carl Sagan A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.
    Billions and Billions: Thoughts of Life and Death at the Brink of the Millenium (1997) Ch. 14, The Common Enemy.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Santayana Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Socrates Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Blaise Pascal Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard 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.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Marcel Duchamp I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
    Marcel Duchamp
    French painter and sculptor (1887 - 1968)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli I never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • William James One thing that ideas do is to contradict other ideas and keep us from believing them.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be ''consistent.''
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Francis Bacon Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Georges Bataille 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
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Brendon Urie Synthesizers were looked at as stealing the soul of music, but then there were these new bands who used it to contradict that idea.
    Brendon Urie
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1987 - )
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  • Alexander Cockburn The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
    Alexander Cockburn
    Irish-American political journalist and writer (1941 - 2012)
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  • Oscar Wilde The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Antisthenes We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.
    Antisthenes
    Greek philosopher (445 - 365)
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