A Quote by Richard Whately

Women never reason, or, if they do, they either draw correct inferences from wrong premises, or wrong inferences from correct premises; and they always poke the fire from the top.

Richard Whately

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Always Correct Draw Either Fire Never Poke Premises Reason Top Women Wrong

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Richard Whately
English - Writer
February 1, 1787 - October 8, 1863

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Isaac Asimov

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I have no interest in being wrong, so if I am, please correct me. I don't want to be wrong. There's nothing in it for you or for me to be wrong.

Rush Limbaugh

How it chanced that a man who reasoned on his premises so ably, should assume his premises so foolishly, is one of the great mysteries of human nature.

Thomas B. Macaulay

The skilful disputant well knows that he never has his enemy at more advantage than when, by allowing the premises, he shows him arguing wrong from his own principles.