Quote

Sophistry is the fallacy of argument.

Henry Ward Beecher

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Henry Ward Beecher
Journalist
Minister
Politician
Theologian
Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
Fallacy
Argument
Sophistry

More quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

Image
Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
A man should fear when he only enjoys what good he does publicly. Is it not the publicity rather than the charity he loves? Is it not vanity, rather than benevolence, that gives such charities?
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Blessed are the happiness-makers! Blessed are they that take away attritions, that remove friction, that make the courses of life smooth, and the intercourse of men gentle!
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Young love is a flame very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Music cleanses the understanding inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.
Henry Ward Beecher