Faulty Logic Quotes

Arguments that prove too much prove nothing.

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

Some people do really find fault like there's a reward for it.

If in physics there's something you don't understand, you can always hide behind the uncharted depths of nature. You can always blame God. You didn't make it so complex yourself. But if your program doesn't work, there is no one to hide behind. You cannot hide behind an obstinate nature. If it doesn't work, you've messed up.

It's the false moral component behind blind animal love that so frosts me. The faulty logic that believes that the capacity to adore a nonhuman creature is somehow a purer form of love.

He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.

Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.

No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already.

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.

There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the effect for the cause.

The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.

One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.

Insight makes argument ridiculous.

Traditional dinosaur theory is full of short circuits. Like the antiquated wiring in an old house, the details sputter and burn out when specific parts are tested.

The finding of arguments for a conclusion given in advance is not philosophy, but special pleading

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!

Bogus science gives vague, undisciplined thinking the look of seriousness and truth.

One of the greatest mistakes of successful people is the assumption, 'I behave this way, and I achieve results. Therefore, I must be achieving results because I behave this way.' This belief is sometimes true, but not across the board.

Our ability to turn off empathy for specific kinds of humans and then use faulty logic to justify our beliefs is messily sociopathic.

A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until compelled by beating and curses to put its foot into that dirty puddle.