Sophistry Quotes
The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in using a word in one sense in all the premises, and in another sense in the conclusion.
As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and protects Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects.
When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy.
Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.
Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential.
It took the whole of Creation to produce my foot, my each feather: now I hold Creation in my foot.
Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.
There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice of them impossible.
Oh, children, growing up to be Adventurers into sophistry, Forbear, forbear to be of those That read the rood to learn the rose.
Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold.
Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.
A philosopher operates with deductions. A sophist operates with paradoxes. A "public intellectual" operates with buzzwords.