Quotes of Sophistry - somelinesforyou

“ Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. ”

- John Adams

“ Our professed love of freedom is increasingly shown to be a sophistry that replaces wisdom and righteousness with self-gratification. ”

- Carl Henry

“ If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, "Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?" No. "Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?" No… ”

- David Hume

“ Duty is never uncertain at first. It is only after we have got involved in the mazes and sophistries of wishing that things were otherwise than they are, that it seems indistinct. Considering a duty is often only explaining it away. ”

- Frederick William Robertson
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