Quote by Bertrand Russell

“(I)n order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it. (p. 158)”

— Rebecca Goldstein

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

— Marcel Proust

An alternate explanation is not a refutation.

— Greg Koukl

“The refutation and remedy of errors cannot precede their rise; and thus the fact of false developments or corruptions involves the correspondent manifestation of…

— John Henry Newman

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“There is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted,…

— John Stuart Mill

“What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.”

— Christopher Hitchens

Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates how the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Deprecation always waits to be disputed, and, if the disputation does not come, becomes petulance.”

— Eleanor Catton

“Thus the unfacts, did we possess them, are too imprecisely few to warrant our certitude...”

— James Joyce

One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood.

— Leo Strauss

“What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.”

— Christopher Hitchens