Quotes About Logical Fallacy

#1. Just because science can't in practice explain things like the love that motivates a poet to write a sonnet, that doesn't mean that religion can. It's a simple and logical fallacy to say, 'If science can't do something therefore religion can.'

Richard Dawkins

#2. The argument for the perfectibility of humankind rests on a logical fallacy. Thus: man is by definition imperfect, say those who would perfect him. But those who would perfect him are themselves, by their own definition, imperfect.

Margaret Atwood

#3. 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

#4. By committing the scientific method to religious claims you're committing a logical fallacy

Francis Collins

#5. A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.

Henri Poincare

#6. If we carry this line of argument to its logical conclusion, the meaning of life consists of the flaws in one's conceptions and what one does about them. Life can be seen as a fertile fallacy.

George Soros

#7. The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent than being truthful. When the idea of intelligence, rather than intelligence itself, becomes a staple, there is no wisdom in it.

Criss Jami

#8. I want my pockets to be like a TARDIS, or Mary Poppins's carpetbag.

Jenny Lawson

#9. Do you believe in magic?," she asked. "I believe in you," he said. "And you're the closest thing to magic that I've found.

J.M. Green

#10. I described the pyramid we'd found and waited for him to jump on the bandwagon. Unfortunately he's afraid of wagons. And bands.

Jennifer Rardin

#11. Measuring Safety Performance by the number of injuries you have is like measuring parenting by the number of smacks you give

Robert Long

#12. We're of one mind, Grenville and I, and the mind is hers, on account of my being a man and not having one.

Loretta Chase

#13. Every one knows that there are no real forests in England.The deer in the parks of the great are demurely domestic cattle, fat as London alderman.

Karl Marx

#14. He believed that his superior intellect mattered more than his physical defects and saw no reason why he must defer to these fortunate young men with handsome faces and healthy bodies and empty heads.

Sharon Kay Penman

#15. What a paradox it is, the sane causes more problems than the insane! It is! The real problems of the world do not come from the insane but, the sane!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#16. I love objectivity when mine.

Brian Spellman

#17. The truth of my circumstance climbs into the bed with me and takes up too much room.

Kristin Hannah

#18. He needs both patience and speed.

Paulo Coelho

#19. She was dressed like she wanted people to look at her. Or maybe like she didn't get what a mess she was.

Rainbow Rowell

#20. If proof were the standard of truth, fallacies would constitute the ultimate reality.

Raheel Farooq

#21. The best revenge is living well without you.

Joyce Carol Oates

#22. De Bono argues that the West's tradition of settling disagreement by debate or argument is an example of overreliance on logic.

Steve Volk

#23. Technology is only an enabler, which can help achieve the intention of the person who is using it.

Jane Chen

#24. Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?

Gilles Deleuze

#25. Most of us happily disavow fairies, astrology and the Flying Spaghetti Monster, without first immersing ourselves in books of Pastafarian theology etc.

Richard Dawkins