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All concord's born of contraries.

Contradiction

PoetEnglish1573 · 16th century

3.0 · 27 votes · 149 reads

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Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Contradiction

PhilosopherFrench1623 · 17th century

3.2 · 47 votes

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Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes).

Contradiction

CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

3.2 · 64 votes

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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

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NovelistBritish1903 · 20th century

3.8 · 47 votes

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How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

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George Bernard Shaw

WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

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I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

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PainterFrench1887 · 19th century

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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

4.3 · 62 votes · 156 reads

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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

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Thomas H. Huxley

ScientistEnglish1825 · 19th century

3.0 · 32 votes · 104 reads

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One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a federal judge who has built his career around dismantling Dr. King's legacy.

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Hillary Clinton

PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

3.6 · 32 votes

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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be ''consistent.''

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

3.9 · 58 votes · 174 reads

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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the Writerto strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Winston Churchill
PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century
5.0 · 57 votes · 143 reads
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The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Oscar Wilde
PoetIrish1854 · 19th century
3.4 · 31 votes · 62 reads
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What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
Lord Byron
PoetBritish1788 · 18th century
3.3 · 50 votes · 160 reads
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Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century
3.9 · 58 votes · 12 reads
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