Populum Fallacy Quotes & Sayings

What I believe in my heart must make sense in my mind. — Ravi Zacharias

The idea that a large group of people believing in something automatically makes it true is a logical fallacy called argumentum ad populum. — Armin Navabi

Unless we realize our sins enough to call them by name, it is hardly worth while to say anything about them at all. When we pray for forgiveness, let us say, "my temper," or "untruthfulness," or "pride," "my selfishness, my cowardice, indolence, jealousy, revenge, impurity." To recognize our sins, we must look them in the face and call them by their right names, however hard. Honesty in confession calls for definiteness in confession. — Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Sometimes our experiences helps us build the monument that forms the base for what God wants us to do. — Bidemi Mark-Mordi

The first job I did was Volkswagen, we shot it in Long Beach, and it was like they won multiple awards with it and they were super excited about it and that kind of launched me into the world of commercials. Still most of what I do is car-related stuff. — Paul W. S. Anderson

People who you knew you could trust," he says it like it's the simplest thing in the world to tell me and I decide Laylen might be the one person who can teach me what the term friend means. "You really can't remember anything about her?" I shake my head, bring my feet up onto the couch, and bend my legs to the side of me. "But I was only one when she died." "No, you weren't," he says with a pucker at his brow. "You were four. Who told you that you were one?" I pierce my fingers into the palms of my hand until the skin splits open. "Marco and Sophia." "Why would they do that?" Laylen reclines back in the sofa, pondering. "Why would it make a difference — Jessica Sorensen

the written word is a recent invention that has left no trace in our genome and must be laboriously acquired throughout childhood and beyond. Speech — Steven Pinker

Gift better than Himself God doth not know,
Gift better than God no man can see;
This gift doth here the giver given bestow
Gift to this gift let each receiver be;
God is my gift, Himself He freely gave me,
God's gift am I, and none but God shall have me. — Robert Southwell

We are suffering from a believism that never has believed, and a receivism that never has received, and it leads to deceivism. — Vance Havner