False Premise Quotes

You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place.

What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.

Your questions are false if you already know the answer.

Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.

When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy.

Hope bases vast premises on foolish accidents, and reads a word where in fact only a scribble exists.

I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion.

To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.

The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted.

Manipulation is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.

Well, what I've said is that the war in Iraq will always be clouded by how it began, which was a wrong premise, that there were in fact no weapons of nuclear - weapons of mass destruction.

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.

Sometimes disingenuous arguments are correct nonetheless.

I certainly believe that we got into the Iraq War on an edifice of distortions.

The United States of America, justifiably and proudly, went to war in Afghanistan in early winter of 2001. The United States invaded Iraq on a false premise in the spring of 2003.

This was a war that was based on lies. It was wrong for us to invade Iraq. It's wrong for us to occupy Iraq and we need to bring our troops home.

As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora of subtle and complicated dogma have arisen on a foundation of nonsense.

To seek in a Sheep five feet when there is but four.

I don't know who did the hacking [through president election 2016]. The article is based on a lie that the R.N.C. was hacked. So the entire premise of the article is false. The sources are unnamed. And the report was inconclusive.The point is, though, we need to find out more facts about this situation. Then we can make intelligent decisions later, and you and I can have more intelligent conversation about what to do about it.

All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.

Not to take this web of dualities as a sign we are on the right track would be a bit like believing that God put fossils into the rocks in order to mislead Darwin about the evolution of life.

The trick is, after all, obvious. The Theist takes terms that can apply to sentient life alone, and applies them to the universe at large. He talks about means, that is, the deliberate planning to achieve certain ends, and then says that as there are means there must be ends. Having, unperceived, placed the rabbit in the hat, he is able to bring it forth to the admiration of his audience.

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