Fallacious Quotes

37 quotes by 32 authors

Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom. — Stokely Carmichael
There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which… — Robert Browning
Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape our senses; and… — Thomas Jefferson
Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what… — Hippocrates
But it is just this characteristic of simplicity in the laws of nature hitherto discovered which it would be fallacious to generalize, for it is… — Bertrand Russell
The investigation of causal relations between economic phenomena presents many problems of peculiar difficulty, and offers many opportunities for fallacious conclusions. Since the statistician can… — Udny Yule
In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reconciled physically, such as for example… — Cyrano de Bergerac
Ninety percent of the book variations have no great value, because either they contain mistakes or they are based on fallacious assumptions; just forget about… — Jose Raul Capablanca
The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly "progressive" policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day… — Ludwig von Mises
Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with the probable exigencies… — Alexander Hamilton
Dr. Kingâ€™s policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that if you are… — Stokely Carmichael
Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form. — Immanuel Kant
Liberals have a set of folk theories that are fallacious. One of them comes from the Enlightenment, and the assumption is that you are supposed… — George Lakoff
One of the most fallacious doctrines originated by Satan and propounded by man is that man is saved alone by the grace of God; that… — Spencer W. Kimball
In love, for example - the so-called love - we are 'related.' We appear to be related. We create the fallacy of a relationship, but… — Rajneesh
When your troops go to war, the prime minister or the president change overnight from an administrator, dealing with taxation and welfare and health and… — Jimmy Carter
What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of… — George Washington
Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial. — Henry Fuseli
Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of the Holy Spiritâ€™s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these… — Alan Hirsch
The excuse or toleration of cruelty upon any living creature by a woman is a deadly sin against the grandest force in nature - maternal… — Elizabeth Blackwell

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