A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
Contradict Quotes
If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by the other; regard them as two different facets, or two successive stages, of the same reality, a reality convincingly human just because it is complex.
I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.
One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
The Bible is not even intelligent. It is not even good craftsmanship, but is full of absurdities and contradictions.
The case, however, is that the Bible will not bear examination in any part of it, which it would do if it was the Word of God. Those who most believe it are those who know least about it, and priests always take care to keep the inconsistent and contradictory parts out of sight.
God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.
For my own part, my belief in the perfection of the Deity will not permit me to believe, that a book so manifestly obscure, disorderly, and contradictory, can be his work. I can write a better book myself.
The Church has realized that anything and everything can be built up on a document of that sort, no matter how contradictory or irreconcilable with it. The faithful will swallow it whole, so long as logical reasoning is never allowed to be brought to bear on it.
