False reasoning Quotes

Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.

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

Excuses sound best to the person that's making 'em up!

An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.

Like the ostrich, head under wingWhen the roaring storm breaks,So many people take refugeUnder the soft pillowOf specious arguments.

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

Repudiating the sensible world, which he neither sees himself nor believes from those who have, the Peripatetic joins combat by childish quibbling in a world on paper, and denies the Sun shines because he himself is blind.

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

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.

But yet they that have no Science , are in better, and nobler condition with their naturall Prudence; than men, that by their mis-reasoning, or by trusting them that reason wrong, fall upon false and absurd generall rules.

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts—for support rather than illumination.

How dangerous can false reasoning prove!

Sophistry is the fallacy of argument.

Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.

And as this is the obvious appearance of things, it must be admitted, till some hypothesis be discovered, which by penetrating deeper into human nature, may prove the former affections to be nothing but modifications of the latter. All attempts of this kind have hitherto proved fruitless, and seem to have proceeded entirely from that love of simplicity which has been the source of much false reasoning in philosophy.

It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.

Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.

False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities.

You are nothing if not exhaustive in your self-congratulatory made-up logic.

As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and protects Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects.

Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.

This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.