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I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another. — Socrates

Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it. — Isaiah Berlin

Every one has the right to refute any opinion. But no one has the right to prevent its expression. — Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it. — Alberto Brandolini

It is a disappointment to me to spawn a child who feels so deeply. I would like to refute the idea that to feel somehow makes you a better person. — Deborah Levy

Shared pain is lessened.
Shared joy is increased.
Thus we refute entropy. — Spider Robinson

It takes one minute to tell a lie, and an hour to refute it. — Noam Chomsky

Because you're you and I'm me, that's why." "Well, there's an argument I can't refute." I can just see his luscious smile. — Magda Alexander

People can refute your facts, but never your feelings. — Sharon Anthony Bower

One cannot refute Christianity; one cannot refute a disease of the eye. — Friedrich Nietzsche

People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them. — Nicolas De Caritat, Marquis De Condorcet

[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order. — Herbert Marcuse

I opened my mouth-and had nothing to refute that with. Damn people who argued using logic. Talk about unfair. — Jeaniene Frost

The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb. — Benjamin Disraeli

Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Shakespeare never has six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion. — Samuel Johnson

I refute a god who would do such a thing to test people who have done their best to live according to his laws. — Ann Aguirre

They who have just ideas, and express them in suitable language, would need to use no long discourse to refute the errors of empty conjecture. — Augustine Of Hippo

Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute. — Ann Coulter

Our belief in any particular natural law cannot have a safer basis than our unsuccessful critical attempts to refute it. — Karl Popper

It makes you feel better," my father said. "Hmmm?" I asked, lost in what passed for thought. "Forgiveness." I found I could not refute it. — Gary Amdahl

The scientist who would rather refute than comprehend demonstrates he has chosen the wrong calling. — Mark Clifton

One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood. — Leo Strauss

Who can refute a sneer? — William Paley

Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them. — George Santayana

A real advantage to gettin' old is that the older ou get, the fewer people there are left alive who can refute anything you say! — Clark Crouch

The one place Gods inarguably exist is in our minds where they are real beyond refute, in all their grandeur and monstrosity. — Alan Moore

I'm afraid there is evidence to refute this claim of human uniqueness. Cetaceans are one example that are known to share experiences. — John Pappas

To refute him is to become contaminated with unreality. — Jorge Luis Borges

Silence is an arguement hard to refute — Anonymous

No one can be compared with you and so no one can refute this — Sunday Adelaja

That we are both right. One truth doesn't refute another. Truth doesn't lie in the object, but in how we see it. — Michael Sullivan

It was useless to argue, she thought, and to wonder about people who would neither refute an argument nor accept it. — Ayn Rand

I do not refute ideals, I merely put on gloves when I deal with them ... — Friedrich Nietzsche

We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence? — Charles Dickens

(I)n order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it. (p. 158) — Rebecca Goldstein

Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy. — Spider Robinson

I do not refute ideals, I just out on gloves when I deal with them ... — Friedrich Nietzsche

Yawns are hard to refute. — Mason Cooley

The poem began with the title. Then I was annoyed by one of the occasional poetry-is-dead articles. Then I refute that notion. — Thomas Lux

Shutting down discussion is self-defeating and impedes progress. We need to talk and listen and debate and refute and instruct and learn and evolve. — Sheryl Sandberg

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. — Josh Billings

After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't, I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God's Son. — Josh McDowell

Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it, or to refute it. — Karl Popper

That we're both right. One truth doesn't refute another. Truth doesn't lie in the object, but in how we see it. Hadrian — Michael J. Sullivan

If you have a very commanding argument that you cannot refute, not to accept the argument is to act irrationally. — Robert F. Almeder

I often play a move I know how to refute. — Bent Larsen

Let there be an end to thought. Thus do I refute Descartes.' I sprawled, not a cogito or a sum to my name. — Roger Zelazny

Our politicians don't say anything anymore: they just refute and assert. — Beeban Kidron

Good books are irrefutable, and bad books refute themselves. — Remy De Gourmont