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The absent are easily refuted. -- C. S. Lewis
A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it -- Wilhelm Steinitz
Laughter and tears may not persuade, but they cannot be refuted. -- Mason Cooley
It must be possible for an empirical system to be refuted by experience. -- Karl Popper
Many times what cannot be refuted by arguments can be parried by laughter. -- Desiderius Erasmus
Never underestimate the power of bad ideas. They must be refuted again and again. -- Llewellyn Rockwell
The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted. -- Vilfredo Pareto
The ideas of theologians are refuted by their adversaries, the ideas of scientists are refuted by their followers. -- Peter Gay
The idea of a superior or inferior race is a myth that has been completely refuted by anthropological evidence. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted? (176) -- Stephen Batchelor
As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts -- Francis Parker Yockey
As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts. -- Francis Parker Yockey
Why, then, do I continue to claim that creationism isn't science? Simply because these relatively few statements have been tested and conclusively refuted. -- Stephen Jay Gould
The nuclear age has refuted the idea of progress and Marxism has been refuted by Stalinism. Therefore people have returned to the historic religion. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote. -- Louise Slaughter
The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example. -- Robert Trout
Truth is undoubtedly the sort of error that cannot be refuted because it was hardened into an unalterable form in the long baking process of history -- Michel Foucault
I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another. -- Socrates
A false argument should be refuted, not named. That's the basic idea behind freedom of speech. Arguments by name-calling, rather than truth and light, can generally be presumed fraudulent. -- Ann Coulter
Political ideas that have dominated the public mind for decades cannot be refuted through rational arguments. They must run their course in life and cannot collapse otherwise than in great catastrophe... -- Ludwig von Mises
The accusation that President Clinton cares deeply about nothing is refuted by his tenacious and guileful battle to prevent any meaningful limits on the form of infanticide known as partial-birth abortion. -- George Will
Many witnesses to the shooting of Michael Brown made statements inconsistent with other statements they made and also conflicted with the physical evidence. Some were completely refuted by the physical evidence. -- Robert P. McCulloch
The General Theory was not truly revolutionary at all but merely old and oft-refuted mercantilist and inflationist fallacies dressed up in shiny new garb, replete with newly constructed and largely incomprehensible jargon. -- Murray Rothbard
The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel

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