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"But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates." »Plato, Symposium
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"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)" »Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"
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"Do I contradict myself Very well then I contradict myself," »Walt Whitman
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"A man never tells you anything until you contradict him." »George Bernard Shaw
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"I never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity." »William Hiram Foulkes
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"There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers." »William James
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"Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him." »George Santayana
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"There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers." »William James
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"Read not to contradict and confute…nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider." »Sir Francis Bacon, O Magazine, April 2003
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"Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider." »Francis Bacon
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"I claim the right to contradict myself. I don't want to deprive myself of the right to talk nonsense, and I ask humbly to be allowed to be wrong sometimes." »Federico Fellni
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"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." »Socrates
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"You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool. My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being, the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to. For my system, which you disapprove of, is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness --- it means more to me than my life itself." »Marquis de Sade
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"Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today." »Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance", 1841
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| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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