Who can refute a sneer?

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

— Herbert Marcuse

“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

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that…

— Josh Billings

“And it’s not very easy to refute him. He is our skeptic; a very important office.”

— C.S. Lewis

Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?

— Charles Dickens

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…

— Irvine Welsh

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

— Noam Chomsky

In order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it.

— Rebecca Goldstein

“To refute him is to become contaminated with unreality.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“refute arguments and theories and reasonings and every proud and lofty thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God; and I…

— Joyce Meyer

“One cannot refute Christianity; one cannot refute a disease of the eye.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“There’s a technique we use in our local rationalist cluster called “Is That Your True Rejection?”, and it works like this: Before you stake…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and…

— Ludwig von Mises

If anyone can refute me-show me I'm making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective-I'l l gladly change. It's the truth…

— Marcus Aurelius