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confuting
«Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him»
Author: John Selden
(Antiquarian, Jurist, Politician)
| About:
Ignorance,
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
confute, confuted, confutes, confuting, excuses, ignorance of the law, plead
«To command the professors of astronomy to confute their own observations is to enjoin an impossibility, for it is to command them not to see what they do see, and not to understand what they do understand, and to find what they do not discover.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
astronomy, confute, confuted, confutes, confuting, enjoin
«Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
confute, confuted, confutes, confuting, contradicting, disputing, good will, unfortunate
«Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
confuses, confute, confuted, confutes, confuting, dogmatist, dogmatists, skeptics, The Skeptic
«Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, but to weigh and consider . . . Histories make men wise.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
History,
Reading
| Keywords:
confute, confuted, confutes, confuting, contradict, Histories, take for, take for granted, weigh
«He could distinguish, and divide / A hair 'twixt south and south-west side. / On either which he would dispute, / Confute, change hands, and still confute.»
Author: Samuel Butler
| Keywords:
change hands, confute, confuted, confutes, confuting, dispute, distinguish, South West, TwixT, west side
«The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
confute, confuted, confutes, confuting, consideration, purity, without consideration