Argument Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“My Parents had early given me religious Impressions, and brought me through my Childhood piously in the Dissenting Way. But I was scarce 15…

— Benjamin Franklin

The reaction to 'Aftermath' has been far worse than to 'A Life's Work,' yet I find I'm perhaps a little less touched by it.…

— Rachel Cusk

I believe that the time given to refutation in philosophy is usually time lost. Of the many attacks directed by many thinkers against each…

— Henri Bergson

The ideas of theologians are refuted by their adversaries, the ideas of scientists are refuted by their followers.

— Peter Gay

There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.

— Marcel Proust

“On the contrary: the advantage of a role-reversal story is that it may enable us to examine aspects concealed by traditional responses and conventional…

— Michael Crichton

“You can easily see what and endless, wearisome and fruitless task it would be if I were to refute all the unconsidered objections of…

— St. Augustine

“It is precisely, if paradoxically, because reversal is in the service of repetition (so as to ensure, alongside its companion strategies, a dizzying proliferation…

— Janet Beizer

Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held…

— David Low

“On the other side, Church spokesmen could scarcely become enthusiastic about Planck's deism, which omitted all reference to established religions and had no more…

— J.L. Heilbron

“[F]or all refutation must begin with some piece of knowledge which the disputants share; from blank doubt, no argument can begin.”

— Bertrand Russell

Whatever is committed from a bad example, is displeasing even to its author.

— Juvenal