Contradict Quotes

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.

It may likewise contribute to soften that resentment which pride naturally raises against opposition, if we consider, that he who differs from us, does not always contradict us; he has one view of an object, and we have another; each describes what he sees with equal fidelity, and each regulates his steps by his own […]

How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one’s culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the […]