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.
He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.
That truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.
In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.
I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop.
We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.
Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.
Avoid contradicting in general, especially people you love.
