Contentious Quotes

“Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious...”
― Francis Bacon

“If you are without contention and still have the ability to make people think, their ego is going to take a hit and as a result they're not going to like you. They don't want to think. They want to be right, unrivaled or entertained.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“A contentious woman was worse than a leaking roof.”
― Francine Rivers, As Sure as the Dawn

“In any contentious debate, some people will find it advantageous to align themselves with the crowd, while a smaller number will come to see themselves as persecuted outsiders. This may especially hold in a field like climate science, where the data is noisy and the predictions are hard to experience in a visceral way. And it may be especially common in the United States, which is admirably independent-minded.”
― Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't