David F. Houston Quotes

The argument holds no water at all, not even a thimbleful.

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.

It doesn't stand up to huge intellectual scrutiny.

Arguments that prove too much prove nothing.

There's nothing I hate more than someone who speaks in the draft room with absolute conviction, but they have nothing to back it up.

I do not propose to criticize the fatuous argument I have just outlined; here, to expound is to expose.

Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'

If people have to tell you how successful they are, they really aren't that successful.

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

I don’t care much for facts, am not much interested in them, you cant stand a fact up, you’ve got to prop it up, and when you move to one side a little and look at it from that angle, it’s not thick enough to cast a shadow in that direction.

When any opinion leads to absurdity, it is certainly false; but it is not certain that an opinion is false because it is of dangerous consequence.

His [Stephen Douglas] argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.

Conspiracy theories are beliefs unencumbered by facts.

I may not be smart enough to debate you point-for-point on this, but I have the feeling about 60% of what you say is crap.

Talk is cheap. Allegations come easily.

Bogus science gives vague, undisciplined thinking the look of seriousness and truth.

Rush Limbaugh's pathetic abuse of logic, his absurd pomposity, his relentless self-promotion, his ridiculous ego - now those, friends, are appropriate targets for satire.

Every liberal position is built on a fallacy.

Fact checking Donald Trump is a really... It is kind of fun but it is ungratifying because nothing checks out.

Kejriwal's only mantra is to tell lies and talk forcefully and repeatedly, but Delhi cannot develop with telling lies.

Any time you see something out there floating around that's not really reality, it's better to just cease it and stop it.

There's certain things that people hold as truth but that are not always necessarily true.

Everybody walks around talking about, 'Sam Allardyce's style is not good enough, he doesn't play the right way' and so on and so forth and it is a massive problem for me. People believe it. You believe the false lies, the false implications. Football does that - it believes that lie sometimes.

Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.