Definition of Contradict

Contradict

To assert the contrary of; to oppose in words; to take issue with; to gainsay; to deny the truth of, as of a statement or a speaker; to impugn.

To be contrary to; to oppose; to resist.

To oppose in words; to gainsay; to deny, or assert the contrary of, something.

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Contradict Quotations

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Oscar Wilde

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
Walt Whitman

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.
Soren Kierkegaard

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
George Bernard Shaw

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
Benjamin Disraeli

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
Blaise Pascal

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

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
William James

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
Francis Bacon

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
George Santayana

A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.
Thomas Malthus

You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.
William Congreve

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
Naguib Mahfouz

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.
Leo Rosten

All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things.
Robert Creeley

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

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.
John Hench

It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.
George Jean Nathan

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.
Vladimir Kramnik

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.
Charles Lyell

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

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

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.
An Wang

We are not against religions. This country is the cradle of prophecy and the true message and we will not contradict this.
Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
Alexander Cockburn

It must be wonderful sport to contradict each other.
Queen Juliana

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Contradict Translations

contradict in Dutch is tegenspreken, in tegenspraak zijn met
contradict in German is widersprechen, widerspreche
contradict in Italian is contraddire
contradict in Norwegian is motsi
contradict in Spanish is contradecir

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