Appearance Quote by Isaac Watts

Sophistry is the fallacy of argument.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the…

— Anonymous

Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case.

— Margaret Oliphant

You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be…

— Giordano Bruno

A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A false argument should be refuted, not named. That's the basic idea behind freedom of speech. Arguments by name-calling, rather than truth and light,…

— Ann Coulter

An argument can be logically valid, but unsound in that it contains a false premise and, therefore, leads to a false conclusion (e.g., Scientists…

— Sam Harris

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

— Edward de Bono

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

— Daniel Webster

It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“consensus fallacy—the idea that if many people believe something, some position, or some ideology, it must be true. Consensus”

— MJ DeMarco

For it is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not…

— H. L. Mencken