Quote by Eleanor Catton

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

— Christopher Hitchens

“in the course of my observation, these disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory sometimes, but they…

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Bertrand Russell

“There is no need to hold on to what's obsolete: One never loses what one tosses away deliberately.”

— Dinah Sanders

“Some things are not meant to disappear until their purpose has been met.”

— Christina L. Farley

The duty of criticism is neither to depreciate nor dignify by partial representations, but to hold out the light of reason, whatever it may…

— Samuel Johnson

“one must not prostrate oneself before the minor impossibilities, otherwise the major impossibilities would never come into view.”

— Franz Kafka

“Failure is a stripping away of the inessential.”

— J.K. Rowling

“What we assume will be temporary often becomes permanent; what we assume is permanent often proves temporary.”

— Gretchen Rubin

“A presumption becomes a self-refuting assertion". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]”

— R. Alan Woods

“And there is the fallacy of existence: the idea that one would be happy forever and aye with a given situation or series of…

— Sylvia Plath

“Trying to dictate to others always has a shelf life.”

— Steven Redhead