There is too much ideological conformity in gender studies. The true-believers fashion the theories, write the textbooks and teach the students. When… — Christina Hoff Sommers 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
Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
We strive as hard to hide our hearts from ourselves as from others, and always with more success; for in deciding upon… — Charles Caleb Colton 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
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
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
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
“A philosopher operates with deductions. A sophist operates with paradoxes. A "public intellectual" operates with buzzwords.” — Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski Copy Share Image
Tis mighty easy o'er a glass of wine On vain refinements vainly to refine, To laugh at poverty in plenty's reign, To… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
This notion that 'what happens in your house doesn't affect what happens in my house' on the subject of the institution of… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
Unskilled in sophistry and new to the darker ways of national politics, Grover Cleveland faced his accusers, his slanderers, and his judges,… — Grover Cleveland 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
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
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
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
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
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
Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action without education is a weak… — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
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
“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
