Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning. — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
Objectivity is a fallacy...there are different opinions, but you dont give them equal weight. — Robert Bazell Copy Share Image
An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy. — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“The more intense the belief, the less likely that reason and evidence can dislodge it.” — Linda Elder Richard Paul Copy Share Image
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
We are most often inspired and motivated by fallacy rather than logic. — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
Perhaps that is the real surprise of love; it exists, but one may not attribute causes and effects to it. The existence… — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
“Trying to think inside Finn's head was like committing what our English master called Pathetic Fallacy, the attribution of human emotions to… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle (God) is unnecessary and not acceptable for any… — Fritz Zwicky Copy Share Image
“The fallacy that Morley in his life of Gladstone asserts to be the greatest affliction of politicians; it is indeed a common… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
The planning fallacy is that you make a plan, which is usually a best-case scenario. Then you assume that the outcome will… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Money makes people rich; it is a fallacy to think it makes them better, or even that it makes them worse. People… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I remember reading about a court case where a man tried to stab a judge with a pencil. There are Google pages… — Don Ihde Copy Share Image
There is a fallacy that the powerful emotion of youth mellows with time. Not true. One learns to control and suppress it.… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
A prevalent fallacy is the assumption that a proof of an afterlife would also be a proof of the existence of a… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
The question we must ask ourselves as a culture is whether we want to embrace the change that must come, or resist… — Howard Lyman Copy Share Image
The slight variations in extracting procedure cause many of the amygdalin (Vitamin B-17, Laetrile) molecules to change to a form unknown to… — Ernst T. Krebs Copy Share Image
In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“To be acknowledged that we do not believe in their misleading notion and fallacy, today, tomorrow and forever even if it costs… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“I've spent a life-time attacking religious beliefs and have not wavered from a view of the universe that many would regard as… — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy — Benjamin Stolberg Copy Share Image
Until I know this sure uncertainty, I'll entertain the offered fallacy. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
By committing the scientific method to religious claims you're committing a logical fallacy — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
“This is the typical fallacy on which all of CONSUMER AMERICA is based. Some piece of useless crap will make people like… — Blake Nelson Copy Share Image
The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies. — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Pride is a fallacy. None of us are greater than the sum of our parts.” — Eric Hirzel Copy Share Image
I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“The fallacy of conception: two halves join and expect to make a whole.” — Laura Elizabeth Woollett Copy Share Image
I've never met anyone who has said, "My goal is to make America mediocre." That's a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
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