Quotes about Unsound Logic

Josh Billings

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

Thiruvalluvar

Reasoning with a drunkard is like going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.

For Tamil Indians the Tirukkural is sacred scripture. There is no archeological evidence of his existence—only his literature. The date therefore is very uncertain and might be as early as the 8th century BC or as late as the 2nd century BC.

Oliver Goldsmith

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

Emanuel Haldeman-Julius

An idea is a sham … when it claims to be the embodiment of eternal truth yet cannot stand the light of even temporary reason

Francis Atterbury

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.

Samuel Butler

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

John Chrysostom

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.

Blaise Pascal

When we are accustomed to use bad reasons for proving natural effects, we are not willing to receive good reasons when they are discovered

Michael Mandelbaum

While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.

Thomas Sowell

Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.

John McCarthy

If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.

Craig Reucassel

Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.

Lactantius

Any one so senseless as to believe that there are men whose footsteps are higher than their heads?... that the crops and trees grow downward?... that the rains and snow and hail fall upward toward the earth?... I am at a loss what to say of those who, when they have once erred, steadily persevere in their folly and defend one vain thing by another.

He was known as “The Christian Cicero” because of his rhetoric. He contributed little original Christian thought but communicated it more so than anyone had done before. Interestingly, the early church fathers did not see the concept of a round earth as heretical—just absurd. When the idea began to be seen as potentially serious heresy would be almost 1000 years later.

Unsound Logic Quotes