Doe Quote by Marcel Proust

An alternate explanation is not a refutation.

— Greg Koukl

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

— Bertrand Russell

Without the existence of the opposite, the concept has no meaning.

— Stephenie Meyer

There is nothing so catching as refinement.

— Emily Eden

One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood.

— Leo Strauss

Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.

— Niels Bohr

Nothing exists without its opposite.

— Chris Crutcher

“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

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

“Absence of something can not dismiss the presence of anything.”

— SFathima

Whatever can't be expressed might as well not exist.

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Christopher Hitchens