Fallacious Quotes

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 deteriorating roads, into the commander-in-chief. And it's just become almost unpatriotic to describe Bush's fallacious and ill-advised and mistaken and sometimes misleading actions. - Jimmy Carter

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular. - Edward Gibbon

The claim that a metropolitan location would improve corporate management is fallacious... Personally, if it comes down to a choice among several potential Habitat executives to be employed in the future, I would choose one who preferred life in South Georgia to those who might insist on an urban existence. - Jimmy Carter

Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously. - Bertrand Russell

Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom. - Stokely Carmichael

Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy. - John Chrysostom

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features. - Primo Levi

Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form. - Immanuel Kant

Don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures. - Sydney Smith

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final. - Hypatia