#contradict

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#contradict #him #man #never #tells

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#behave #between #contradiction #imposed #kind

I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#albert einstein #always #because #contradict #dares

When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness. ↗

— Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

#aim #between #captured #contradiction #distinguish

I put the “now” in knowledge. Well, I will put it there, probably tomorrow or tomorrow’s tomorrow.
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— Jarod Kintz

#knowledge #now #procrastination #tomorrow #procrastination

All those religions--they contradict each other on every point but every one of them is filled with ways to help people to be brave enough to laugh even though they know they are dying. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#contradictions #life-and-death #religions #death

You are the most ludicrous excuse for a man I've ever known - but there isn't a centimetre of you that I don't think is perfect. ↗

— Lucy Robinson

#ludicrous-excuse-of-a-man #perfection #love

Life is never free of contradictions. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

#free #life #never

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. ↗

— Catharine Beecher

#common #common sense #contradict #dogmas #increased

It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#contradictory #hard #just #people #quite