Zitat des Tages über Widersprechen / Contradict:
It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.
Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict.
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
If you read the whole Vertigo 'Animal Man' series of 89 issues or whatever, each writer has a completely different take on his origin. If you try to put them all together, they contradict one another. I had to pick and choose to make up a new origin that makes sense to new readers.
In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn't play good, or accidents happen continuously. Many things contradict what you are trying to say. But in cartoons, nothing contradict what you want to say.
In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much hesitation.
Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
I know that everyone who listens to radio creates you in a visual image that they need you to have. Whatever that is, I thought, let them have it. Let me be who the listener needs me to be and let me not contradict that with the reality of my photograph and risk disappointing them.
Certainly a sort of industrial use of creatures, so that geese are fed in such a way as to produce as large a liver as possible, or hens live so packed together that they become just caricatures of birds, this degrading of living creatures to a commodity seems to me in fact to contradict the relationship of mutuality that comes across in the Bible.
A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.
We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.
I've been trying to think of things to tell my kids, something that I could pass down, and it's like, gee whiz, I maybe never learned anything that didn't contradict itself.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him.
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
Sometimes as human beings, we're so contradictory - we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves. That's what I'm learning to embrace in television - not knowing what's going to happen.
The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.
We are not against religions. This country is the cradle of prophecy and the true message and we will not contradict this.
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
What's true will never contradict what's true. Article 2 of the Belgic Confession, based on Psalm 19, Romans 1, and several other texts, declares that God has given us two reliable revelations: the words of Scripture and the facts of nature. Thus, it would be impossible for the facts of nature ever to contradict the words of the Bible.
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things.
I think the existence of zombies would contradict certain laws of nature in our world. It seems to be a law of nature, in our world, that when you get a brain of a certain character you get consciousness going along with it.
I have this idea of myself as this quiet, observant, thoughtful child, which my parents roundly contradict. They claim that I was loud and bossy and dancing all the time.
Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.
I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.