Fallacy Quotes

In this country there are two parties: the righteous and the fallacious

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

In economics, the majority is always wrong.

What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof

We all resort to the ad hominem from time to time: in human affairs, it is difficult to avoid it, and probably not desirable. After all, our opponents are human. The proper use of an ad hominem argument, however, still requires evidence to back it up.

… fear false knowledge

The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same

Whoever attacks the popular falsehoods of his time will find that a lie defends itself by telling other lies. Nothing is so prolific, nothing can so multiply itself, nothing can lay and hatch as many eggs, as a good, healthy, lie.

When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly half way between. It is possible for one side simply to be wrong.

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.

The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.

Solution to pollution by dilution is fallacious.

A witty saying proves nothing.

The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

Conspiracy theories are beliefs unencumbered by facts.

It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.

It is not only not right, it is not even wrong.

That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.

The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.

The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.

Truth is a theory that is constantly being disproved. Only lies, it seems, go on forever.

Common sense is that which tells us the world is flat.

Never ascribe to conspiracy that which can be attributed to ignorance.

Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion - thus: Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man. Minor Premise: One man can dig a post-hole in sixty seconds; Therefore- Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a post-hole in one second. This may be called syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed.