When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy. — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
The biggest public fallacy is that the market is always right. The market is nearly always wrong. I can assure you of… — Jim Rogers Copy Share Image
“It is a fundamental fallacy to think that our human bodies work like the structures that humans have built.” — Kaminoff, Leslie Copy Share Image
The question of naturalism is a fallacy, it does not exist... The photographic image replaces naturalistic experience. — Sid Grossman Copy Share Image
Economics is primarily useful, both to the student and to the political leader, as a prophylactic against popular fallacies. — Henry Calvert Simons Copy Share Image
“It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me, that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to man.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
"Isn't it fun getting older?" is really a terrible fallacy. That's like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat… — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective. — Craig Venter Copy Share Image
“Thomas Friedman, the New York Times foreign affairs columnist, in his typical fashion, trivialized—and did much to popularize—the “dictator’s dilemma” fallacy by… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
We cannot always convince people with truth, logic and reason. We do need fallacy to make them believe; because even the best… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The assertion fallacy is the fallacy of confusing the conditions for the performance of the speech act of assertion with the analysis… — John Searle Copy Share Image
“The chief vestige of subjectivity is the fallacy that everybody else also cares about the same things as the observer, and/or lives… — Stephan Attia Copy Share Image
The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I never enquire into the origin of things, all Origin is a fallacy (in this I follow Nietzsche: origin is a very… — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
“For Paley, a watch is purposeful and thus must have been created by a being with a purpose. A watch needs a… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“This should not come as a surprise: overly optimistic forecasts of the outcome of projects are found everywhere. Amos and I coined… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“The fallacy was obvious. It presupposed that somewhere or other, outside oneself, there was a “real” world where “real” things happened. But… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I don't think that those things [so called common practice] ever truly existed in the way that we like to believe that… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
In love, for example - the so-called love - we are 'related.' We appear to be related. We create the fallacy of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should guarantee to every… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“Without awareness of common pitfalls such as confirmation bias, positive-outcome bias, and subjective validation, a person trained in logic and fallacy detection… — Robert Carroll Copy Share Image
A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
![“I don't think that those things [so called common practice] ever truly existed in the way that we like to believe that they do, the way we learn about them in music history class. Those things are defined at least decades after they happen. And even then, it's a fallacy because when you're in the…” quote by Missy Mazzoli](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f92/missy-mazzoli-30163_believe_i-don-t-think-that-those-things-so-calle_2568944.jpg)
