Nathan Bedford Forrest

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.

American General

Oscar Isaac

I like films that take their time a little bit more and don't show you all of their cards right away, characters that are conflicted and contradicting and seem one way at first and then suddenly turn out to be something else.

Guatemalan Actor

Gunter Grass

It is a wonderful thing in the process of writing when such paper characters are first sketched, and, when one is doing good work, from a certain point in time they come alive and start contradicting the author as well.

German Author

Parker Palmer

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.

American Educator

Mike Barnicle

Reality is self-defined as the mob, any mob, writes its own history, never to be contradicted by the quiet statement of truth.

American Journalist

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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

American Writer

George Jean Nathan

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

American Editor

Yossi Sarid

I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.

Israeli Politician

Oscar Wilde

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

Irish Poet

Hans Eysenck

If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.

German Psychologist

Used when arguing or showing you disagree with someone's statement.

Interpersonal Contradiction

Common in debates to counter an opponent's point.

Debating Tactics

It's important to use facts or evidence when you contradict someone.

Precision Needed

Often used when new research doesn't match previous studies or theories.

Academic Disputes

Part of the process in science to test and potentially contradict established ideas.

Scientific Method

Use when denying false information or rumors about something or someone.

Correcting Rumors

Emphasizes the act of presenting the correct information against a false claim.

Assertion of Truth

 Comedy seems to live here, to subsist on the illogic of logical contradiction and its derivatives. We laugh when the order we project on the world is disrupted and disproven, like when the way we all act contradicts truths we don't like talking about, or when strange observations we all make

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 And there are hundreds of initiatives every year to try and improve education. The trouble is, it's all going in the wrong direction. There are three principles on which human life flourishes, and they are contradicted by the culture of education under which most teachers have to labor

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 Well, the jury's still out on that one. Some recent studies even contradict the idea. Regardless, toxoplasma has definitely benefited from humans to become one of the world's most successful parasites. It's not just our willingness to let cats on our dining room tables

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 where I was raised by screens. The main windows to reality for me were television and the internet. Not because of their accuracy, but because there were storytelling machines. These machines told stories that contradict one another, but all somehow seem true.

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 that contradicts an established consensus. So when all the available evidence suggests that humans are causing an increase in global temperatures, the burden of proof has been fulfilled— if you disagree, it becomes your responsibility to prove otherwise.

Can you outsmart the...

 actually contains a number of assumptions that may contradict each other. It doesn’t seem fair for some voters to have more influence than others. But nor does it seem fair to simply ignore minority preferences, or encourage people to game the system.

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 That contradicts the second half of what B said, and 5 and 4 must be the correct codes. With seconds to spare you override the missile launch, shoot yourself out of the torpedo bay, and send the sub to the bottom of the ocean.

Can you solve the rogue...

 The reality totally contradicted initial perceptions of this planet. From these lessons from our own solar system, we've learned that a planet's atmosphere is crucial to its climate and potential to host life.

Aomawa Shields: How...

 century advanced photographic techniques helped reveal a hidden set of numbers calculations referring to dates some seven thousand years in duration contradicting the idea that the Maya