Contradictory Quotes |
Pairs of quotes and sayings contradicting each other
| Cogito ergo sum. I think therefore I exist.
| I think that I think, therefore I think that I am. |
| The end justifies the means.
| The end cannot justify the means for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced. |
| The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part.
| If it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score? |
| Don’t saw off the branch you are sitting on.
| Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it. |
| Familiarity breeds contempt.
| Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. |
| Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
| People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately. |
| Honesty is the best policy.
| Honesty may be the best policy, but it’s important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy. |
| Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
| They say that instead of cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. Nothing is mentioned, though, about cursing a lack of candles |
| If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
| If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten. |
| Good things come to those who wait.
| Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. |
| He who knows others is wise, but he who knows himself is enlightened.
| Only the shallow know themselves. |
| Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
| Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. |
| Time is money.
| Time is a waste of money. |
| In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.
| I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is “In 15 minutes everybody will be famous”. |
| All the world 's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.
| If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting? |
| To be, or not to be: that is the question.
| To be or not to be… Neither one nor the other. |
| War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.
| I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. |
| All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore Socrates is mortal.
| All cats are mortal. Socrates is mortal. Therefore Socrates is a cat. |
| Property is theft!
| Property is not theft. It is nothing. |
