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- Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. — John Adams
- It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all… — David Hume
- The study of the past with one eye, so to speak, upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries… — Herbert Butterfield
- 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.
- Why should not every individual man have existed more than once upon this world? Why should I not come back as often… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have… — Charles Dickens
- 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
- The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition… — Samuel Johnson
- If a close examination of the evidences of Christianity may be expected of one class of men more than another, it would… — Simon Greenleaf
- Truth is strong enough to overcome all human sophistries. — Aeschines
- Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either… — Jacques Maritain
- Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness. — Leonardo da Vinci