When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy. — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Oh, children, growing up to be Adventurers into sophistry, Forbear, forbear to be of those That read the rood to learn the… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“A philosopher operates with deductions. A sophist operates with paradoxes. A "public intellectual" operates with buzzwords.” — Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski Copy Share Image
“The dangers of sophistry and scholasticism are present in the possibility of philosophy itself.” — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. — John Adams Copy Share Image
The study of the past with one eye upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history. It… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
There is no error which hath not some appearance of probability resembling truth, which, when men who study to be singular find… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
It is Satan's constant effort to misrepresent the character of God, the nature of sin, and the real issues at stake in… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
The study of the past with one eye, so to speak, upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot. Or fly… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
One of the great sophistries of our age, I think, is that merely because one has an inclination to do something, that… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
That Hegelian dialectics should provide a wonderful instrument for always being right, because they permit the interpretations of all defeats as the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. Obscurity and affectation are the two greatest faults of style. Obscurity… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
New technologies will always demand and deserve careful navigation and difficult readjustments. But the weakening or de facto abolition of copyright will… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Young men, terminate, I beseech you, in your own experience, the sad divorce which has too often existed between intellect and piety.… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at… — Charles Robert Maturin Copy Share Image
“Give those who are gentle strength, Give those who are strong a generous imagination, And make their half-truth true and let the… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
We find sects and parties in most branches of science; and disputes which are carried on from age to age, without being… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
“The Devil answer'd: bray a fool in a morter with wheat, yet shall not his folly be beaten out of him; if… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Sophistry, like poison, is at once detected and nauseated, when presented to us in a concentrated form; but a fallacy which, when… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
So here we have it. The equivocating distinction between civilisation and savagery, between the "massacre of innocent people" or, if you like,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
O Reader! hast thou eer stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceies Its glossy leaes Ordered by… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
