Best Fallacies Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The study of Scripture I find to be quite like mastering an instrument. No one is so good that they cannot get any better; no one knows so much that they can know no more. A professional can spot an amateur or a lack of practice or experience a mile away. His technicality, his spiritual ear is razor-sharp. He is familiar with the common mistakes, the counter-arguments; and insofar as this, he can clearly distinguish the difference between honest critics of the Faith and mere fools who criticize that which they know nothing.”

Source: Healology

“It's always funny that you can try and try again to steal all your critics' ammo, predict their responses, but no matter what, they'll still have a water gun stashed somewhere.”

Source: Killosophy

“Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence.”

Reason Emotion Reasoning Logical Thinking Fallacies Logic Reason

Book:Speeches and Writings 1832–1858

Source: Speeches and Writings 1832–1858

“Is it lying when one knows how one wants things to turn out and then says what is needed to achieve that result? said R. Lying when a person uses his considerable reputation and his mastery of public communication to thrash his opponents by redirecting the attention of the general populace, thus infecting the people with the tiniest sliver of doubt, which, widely propagated, becomes a sizable wedge of doubt? said G. Doesn’t every idea, said R., even those judged by some standards to be fallacious or those which have been disproven outright, deserve to be honored with the public’s attention? Doesn’t the public have the right to know? said G. And decide for itself? said R. Are you calling the public stupid? said G. Do you not believe in democracy? said R.”

Ideas Lying Democracy Doubt Lies Public Conspiracies Fallacies

Book:Vigil

Source: Vigil

“If you consider yourself a credible person, when a lie reaches you, that’s where the fallacy should end.”

Lies Credibility Messy Carlos Wallace Fallacies Fallacy Of Imitative Form

Author:Carlos Wallace

“Statistically speaking, saying that the entire population of women is more reckless and gullible than men because a single woman in the Bible was reckless and gullible is invalid. A single data point is not sufficient for determining whether or not women are more likely to be gullible and reckless than men, and Eve only represents ONE DATA POINT that supports the claim! To use Eve's sin to state that women are more gullible and reckless would mean that you are creating a claim derived from only one data point, which is insufficient statistical support.”

Women Bible Data Statistics Fallacies

Book:Feminism and Biblical Hermeneutics

Source: Feminism and Biblical Hermeneutics

“Some theist fall in this categories Using: 1. **Circular Reasoning**: Assuming the conclusion in the premise, essentially restating the same idea without providing new information. 2. **Argument from Ignorance**: Asserting something as true simply because it hasn't been proven false, or vice versa. 3. **Appeal to Authority**: Using the opinion or testimony of an authority figure as evidence in an argument. 4. **False Dichotomy**: Presenting an argument as though there are only two options when there could be more. 5. **Argument from Personal Incredulity**: Rejecting a claim because one finds it difficult to understand or believe. Those are most fallacies which believers use”

God Logic Fallacies

Book:God Who Cares?

Source: God Who Cares?

“[T]hough in all practical matters it is indispensable, either always or mostly, to follow custom, to do what is generally done, in theoretical matters it is simply untrue. In practical matters there is a right of the first occupant: what is established must be respected. In theoretical matters this cannot be. Differently stated: The rule of practice is 'let sleeping dogs lie,' do not disturb the established. In theoretical matters the rule is 'do not let sleeping dogs lie.' Therefore, we cannot defer to precedent . . . .”

Logic Critical Thinking Fallacies Leo Strauss Ad Populum Fallacy

Book:On Plato's Symposium

Source: On Plato's Symposium

“It is only by ignoring fact, science, and reason that one can support current Republican positions.”

Politics Trump Logic Political Parties Fallacy Republicans Democrats Liberal Politics Of The United States Fallacies Convservatives

Book:Phalluses of Logic: How to Know When Republicans Lie

Source: Phalluses of Logic: How to Know When Republicans Lie

“If one man challenges a statement and another cannot prove it, it does not necessarily follow that the statement is false.”

Logic Apologetics The Bible Fallacies

Author:Ron Brackin

“Even the self-assured truth-finders and self-proclaimed freedom-fighters reject Truth. As admirable as such endeavors may be, they still only really want it so long as it to some extent confirms what they had already presumed to be true.”

Self Truth Freedom Pride Ego Bias Confirmation Bias Fallacies

Book:Healology

Source: Healology

“Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.”

“Fancy words and ambiguous notions make you feel like your argument is valid but it exudes multiple logical fallacies, which make you continue to search for a valid point.”

Argument Notion Words Logical Ambiguous Point Fallacies Valid Invalid Exude

Author:Jeffrey G. Duarte

“The poorly sophisticated, since many of us are, as presumed to be, lacking in good arguments, we are then prone to being well-versed in insults.”

Humor Funny Education Funny But True Insults Argumentation Fallacies Ad Hominem Unsophisticated

Book:Healology

Source: Healology

“A communal outrage inspires what the psychologist Roy Maumeister calls a victim narrative: a moralized allegory in which a harmful act is sanctified, the damage consecrated as irreparable and unforgivable. The goal of the narrative is not accuracy but solidarity. Picking nits about what actually happened is seen as not just irrelevant but sacrilegious or treasonous.”

Chaos Bias Rationality Cognition Biases Blm Antifa Metoo Lgbtiqa Fallacies

Book:Rationality

Source: Rationality

“Results of a recent survey of 74 chief executive officers indicate that there may be a link between childhood pet ownership and future career success. Fully 94% of the CEOs, all of them employed within Fortune 500 companies, had possessed a dog, a cat, or both, as youngsters. The respondents asserted that pet ownership had helped them to develop many of the positive character traits that make them good managers today, including responsibility, empathy, respect for other living beings, generosity, and good communication skills. For all we know, more than 94% of children raised in the backgrounds from which chief executives come had pets, in which case the direction of dependency would be negative. Maybe executive success is really related to tooth brushing during childhood. Probably all chief executives brushed their teeth, at least occasionally, and we might imagine the self-discipline thus acquired led to their business success. That seems more reasonable than the speculation that “communication skills” gained through interacting with a childhood pet promote better relationships with other executives and employees.”

Causality Cognitive Biases Fallacies Cognitive Distortions Pop Psychology

Book:Rational Choice in an Uncertain World: The Psychology of Judgement and Decision Making

Source: Rational Choice in an Uncertain World: The Psychology of Judgement and Decision Making

“The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of which is perception.”

Time Perception Memory Astrophysics Space Time Past And Future Absurdism Arrow Fallacies Metafiction Illusion Of Self

Book:Only the Deplorable

Source: Only the Deplorable

“As for the majority, it is not so much race as it is political affiliation that really divides it today. What was once an issue of physical difference is now one of intellectual difference. Men have yet to master disagreeing without flashing all their frustrations that come with it; the conservative will throw half-truths while the liberal will throw insults. Combine these and what do you get? A dishonest mockery of a country.”

Source: Healology

“It's fallacious reasoning for the atheist to hate all religion due to men who manipulate religion to fit their own agendas. They are counterparts, therefore, if Truth is true, partners in crime. To believers, the atheist and the religiously corrupt boil down to the same person, the self-righteous: one denies Truth to fit his own agenda; the other manipulates Truth to fit his own agenda.”

Source: Killosophy