“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals (1838-11-08)
Tag: contradiction
Quote of the Day
“He argues best who never contradicts.” — Edward Owings Towne, Aphorisms of the Three Threes
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“The person you are most afraid to contradict is yourself.” — Nassim Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
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“Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust.” — Philip Stanhope, Letters To His Son, 10 August 1749