Argument Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

Never say, and never take seriously anyone who says, 'I cannot believe that so-and-so could have evolved by gradual selection.' I have dubbed this…

— Richard Dawkins

Sophistry, like poison, is at once detected and nauseated, when presented to us in a concentrated form; but a fallacy which, when stated barely…

— Richard Whately

When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy.

— Isaac Watts

The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of…

— Thomas Merton

Zoocentrism is the primary fallacy of human sociobiology, for this view of human behavior rests on the argument that if the actions of "lower"…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Every argument against the God of the Bible is based on made-up stuff.”

— Petros Scientia

Oh, children, growing up to be Adventurers into sophistry, Forbear, forbear to be of those That read the rood to learn the rose.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold.

— Leonardo da Vinci

We find sects and parties in most branches of science; and disputes which are carried on from age to age, without being brought to…

— Thomas Reid

“The dangers of sophistry and scholasticism are present in the possibility of philosophy itself.”

— Susan Neiman