Quotes about Fallacy
Truth is immortal; error is mortal.
— Mary Baker Eddy
But all was false and hollow; through his tongue dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear the better reason.
— John Milton
There is no such thing as 'separation of church and state.' Reporters continue to promote this fallacy and scare Christians out of standing up for their beliefs.
— Ken Ham
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
To beguile is to deceive or lead astray, as Lucifer beguiled Eve in the Garden of Eden.
— Joseph Wirthlin
Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.
— John Milton
The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.
— Victor Hugo
A single fact can spoil a good argument.
— Anonymous
Often, the most dangerous deception was the one that looked the most like the truth.
— Randy Singer
Small aberrations in doctrinal teaching can lead to large and evil falsehoods.
— Gordon Hinckley
Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Lincoln characterized Stephen Douglas's argument as a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse chestnut to be a chestnut horse.
— Abraham Lincoln