Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.
The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.
There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machinelike. They'll refute this, but I've been around it. I know.
Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute.
Shakespeare never had six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion.
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.
Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.
We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?
Yawns are hard to refute.
One truth doesn't refute another. Truth doesn't lie in the object, but in how we see it.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood.
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.
In order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it.
If you have a very commanding argument that you cannot refute, not to accept the argument is to act irrationally.
It is hardly useful if you trustingly play through variation after variation from a book. It is a great deal more useful and more interesting if you take part actively in the analysis, find something yourself, and try to refute some of the author's conclusions.
Suppose. . . the body is a God in its own right, a teacher, a mentor, a certified guide? Then what?. . . . Are we strong enough to refute the party line and listen deep, listen true to the body as a powerful and holy being?
People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them.
I'm quite comfortable now with being misunderstood. I don't really feel the need either to pander to it or to refute it. Just go on, and do what I've got to do.
Good books are irrefutable, and bad books refute themselves.