Refutation Quotes

The refutation of a sacrifice frequently consists in its acceptance. - Wilhelm Steinitz

The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance called 'faith.' - Robert Green Ingersoll

The attorney general's refutation of the legal argument made by the White House ... speaks volumes about the far-fetched nature of the White House's submission. - Ken Starr

Statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by an. - Mark Twain

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. - Benjamin Disraeli

In the time of Galileo it was argued that the texts, 'And the sun stood still ... and hasted not to go down about a whole day' (Joshua x. 13) and 'He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not move at any time' (Psalm cv. 5) were an adequate refutation of the Copernican theory. - Alan Turing

Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing. - Benjamin Disraeli