Argumentum Quotes

#1. Since the topic is science, the non scientists don't get a vote. We shouldn't decide everything by polling the masses. This is the fallacy called Argumentum Ad Numerum, the idea that something is true because great number believe it, as in EAT SHIT, twenty trillions flies can't be wrong!

Bill Maher

#2. The idea that a large group of people believing in something automatically makes it true is a logical fallacy called argumentum ad populum.

Armin Navabi

#3. Anything to do with persuasion is rhetoric, right down to the argumentum ad baculum, which means threatening somebody with a stick until they agree with you.

Mark Forsyth

#4. All that matters is I love you, and the thought of you safe is the only thing keeping me going

Amie Kaufman

#5. The only topic you could not get Andre' to budge on was whether or not wrestling was fake or rehearsed in any way. I don't know if in Andre's case it was real, considering all the severe punishment he experienced, or whether he believed in the wrestler's code of never giving away trade secrets.

Cary Elwes

#6. I'm sure once he recovers from the muscle tone and tattoos he'll be fine.'
Good thing he didn't know about the penis piercing. That would give him a heart attack. Or the fact that I had seen the penis piercing.

Erin McCarthy

#7. It takes a brave man to be truly mad.

Atticus

#8. Being a food show and being me, I always kicked it up a notch, which means I would always elevate the spice level or the complexity of a particular dish. So, it was always like we're going to kick this up a little bit.

Emeril Lagasse

#9. Precaution the Cuticle of a Grand Piano. Modern art [by Salvador Dali].

Joan Wehlen Morrison

#10. Just as [he] had expected. The preacher retreated to authority as soon as he feared his ideas could not stand on their own merit. Reasonable argument was impossible when authority became the arbiter ...

Orson Scott Card