People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them.
It appears, from all that precedes, reasonably certain that if there be any relative motion between the earth and the luminiferous ether, it must be small; quite small enough entirely to refute Fresnel's explanation of aberration.
The poem began with the title. Then I was annoyed by one of the occasional poetry-is-dead articles. Then I refute that notion.
Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.
In order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it.
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.
As long as [Mikhail] Saakashvili is president, I will be unable to prove my innocence in Georgia. Seen in this light, there is a positive aspect to my arrest in Germany. It will be much easier for me to refute the charges here.
Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute.
People can refute your facts, but never your feelings.
Shakespeare never had six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion.
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?
One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood.
Yawns are hard to refute.
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.
Good books are irrefutable, and bad books refute themselves.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
One truth doesn't refute another. Truth doesn't lie in the object, but in how we see it.
Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the bloodshed in Northern Ireland or the bombs bursting in Lebanon and yet question the dangers of injecting religious issues into the affairs of state?
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.
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.
