Flawed Logic Quotes

If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.

When people say "clearly" something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all.

The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want of Method.

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

I can't be talking to a tree. If I was talking to a tree I'd be mad, and I'm not mad, so trees can't talk.

Stupid can't fix stupid.

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!

Human reason can excuse any evil.

First law of Bad Management: If something isn't working, do more of it.

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality. The passage from logic is consummated. Thus are born ideologies, doctrines, and bloody farce.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!

If there's any comparison between the compassion and decency of the American people and the terrorist tactics of extremists, it's flawed logic. It's just I simply can't accept that. It's unacceptable to think that there's any kind of comparison between the behavior of the United States of America and the action of Islamic extremists who kill innocent women and children to achieve an objective.

There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.

People may believe correct things for the damndest and weirdest of wrong reasons.

You do not convince me. You rationalize your actions and because the result is favorable you become right.

Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

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

We're making the same mistakes we made 1,000 years ago. So they must be the right ones. So relax.

If we keep asking the wrong questions, we are just going to get better wrong answers. The solution to lack of community isn't to give up on the community.

There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.

There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.