Laurie R. King Quotes

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities.

The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.

It is amazing how many people think that they can answer an argument by attributing bad motives to those who disagree with them. Using this kind of reasoning, you can believe or not believe anything about anything, without having to bother to deal with facts or logic.

If you can somehow force a liberal into a point-counterpoint argument, his retorts will bear no relation to what you’ve said - unless you were in fact talking about your looks, your age, your weight, your personal obsessions, or whether you are a fascist. In the famous liberal two-step, they leap from one idiotic point to the next, so you can never nail them. It’s like arguing with someone with Attention Deficit Disorder.

When the author has no idea of what to reply to a critic, he then likes to say: you could not do it better anyway. This is the same as if a dogmatic philosopher reproached a skeptic for not being able to devise a system.

So you see how endlessly futile and fruitless it would be if we wanted to refute their objections every time they obstinately resolved not to think through what they say but merely to speak, just so long as they contradict our arguments in any way they can.

I do not propose to criticize the fatuous argument I have just outlined; here, to expound is to expose.

I've learned that sometimes when people don't like what you have to say, and don't want to debate you on ideas, it's just easier to call you a dumb blonde from Fox News.

God designed the stomach to eject what is bad for it, but not the human brain.

Quit voting me down before you even think about what I'm saying.

There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.

Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument.

A crude mind could easily think: something is valid, therefore it is true.

Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are willing to accept if everybody else in our set will too.

I didn't like having reasonable arguments thrown at me.

Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument.

All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically

Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.

You never win an argument until they attack your person.

Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.

Enjoy the insult as you deliver it, before you learn its cost.

That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.

He referred to me as an 'insufferable puffed-up prat'. This is a bit rich coming from a man who actually married his own mother.