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Scotland: A land of meanness, sophistry and lust.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | George (Lord) Byron |

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. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | David Hume |

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

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | John Adams |

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Francis Bacon |