Refuting Quotes
- Atheists tend to read only each other’s books and not the work of the religious thinkers they are supposedly refuting. — Edward Feser
- The social intuitionist model offers an explanation of why moral and political arguments are so frustrating: because moral reasons are the tail wagged by the… — Jonathan Haidt
- You can’t make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can’t change people’s minds by utterly refuting their arguments. — Jonathan Haidt
- The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile. — C.D. Wright
- I believe that the time given to refutation in philosophy is usually time lost. Of the many attacks directed by many thinkers against each other,… — Henri Bergson
- When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Back in August, I wrote a post about the supposed race to the bottom with ebooks, refuting some nonsense written by an establishment bonehead. This… — J.A. Konrath
- [Great scientists] are men of bold ideas, but highly critical of their own ideas: they try to find whether their ideas are right by trying… — Karl Popper
- Scientists tend to build a reputation on refuting the theories of those who have gone before. Yet, whatever we hypothesize, observe, measure or record about… — Robert Winston