False Logic Quotes

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin.

These reasonings are unconnected: "I am richer than you, therefore I am better"; "I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am better." The connection is rather this: "I am richer than you, therefore my property is greater than yours;" "I am more eloquent than you, therefore my style is better than yours." But you, after all, are neither property nor style.

It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to sound like it does.

Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.

There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.

Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.

The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.

We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him we need no more seek Him.

The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.

Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art.

I tend to splurge on fancy dresses because I always think I'll get a lot of wear out of them, but it's false logic. You should really spend more money on the things you wear every day, like jeans.

To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.

High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge.