Quotes on Contradicting

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

If he exalts himself, I humble him. If he humbles himself, I exalt him. And I go on contradicting him Until he understands That he is a monster that passes all understanding.

The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet - a matter of faith, unsuited to a public school's science curriculum.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

No Ideas original - there is nothing new under the sun.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

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

I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.

The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.