Faulty Reasoning Quotes

Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right.

The forming of general maxims from particular observation is a very nice operation; and nothing is more usual, from haste or a narrowness of mind, which sees not on all sides, than to commit mistakes in this particular.

Some people do really find fault like there's a reward for it.

Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.

Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

You see, astrology is like fortune-telling. If you can't get it right, you say, "Well, if Venus was doing something peculiar in the background, that would alter your prognostication--because, of course, astrology is rubbish.

Right and proof are two crutches for everything bent and crooked that limps along.

The critics. When they're right, they're right for the wrong reasons. And they're usually wrong.

People are quick to jump to conclusions.

Sometimes we misinterpret, sometimes we misunderstand, sometimes we make mistakes.

The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.

Once again you've put your keen and penetrating mind to the task and as usual come to the wrong conclusion!

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praise-worthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind.

How full of error is the judgment of mankind! They wonder at results when they are ignorant of the reasons

Obviously something is wrong with the entire argument of "obviousness".

Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality.

It's stupid the way people extrapolate the past -- and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid.

All humans make mistakes. But there is no room or allowance in the fevered world of conspiracy theorists for mistakes, human errors, anomalies, or plain incompetence, though the latter, from the highest levels on down, is endemic to our society.

When somethin's not right it's wrong.

Mother Teresa had a mustache. Hitler had a mustache. Mother Teresa is Hitler.

Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.

Logic might be unanswerable because it was so absolutely wrong.

He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination.

It's remarkable the logic we'll build around a misapprehension.