Refutation Quotes

29 quotes by 26 authors

It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future.… — W. Somerset Maugham
The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Women have been driven mad, â€œgaslightedâ€, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience.… — Adrienne Rich
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities,… — Mark Twain
There is no refutation of Darwinian evolution in existence. If a refutation ever were to come about, it would come from a scientist, and not… — Richard Dawkins
Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of… — Benjamin Disraeli
In the time of Galileo it was argued that the texts, 'And the sun stood still ... and hasted not to go down about a… — Alan Turing
Before World War I one of the objections commonly urged against votes for women was that women would tend to be pacifists. During the war… — Bertrand Russell
The success of our admirable system is a conclusive refutation of the theories of those in other countries who maintain that a "favored few" are… — James K Polk

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