We cannot but think there is something like a fallacy in Mr. Buckle's theory that the advance of mankind is necessarily in… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I live by fallacy. 'If I get enough nice Ikea furniture, I'll be a grown-up.' Then I catch myself. Or, 'If I… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I think there's a fallacy that's been concocted by the music teachers' profession, to wit: that there's a certain sequence of events… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
I think it's a fallacy that only people in elected office can come up with solutions that solve our problems. I just… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“The idea that people could get along fine with just markets, and no government, turned out to rest upon a version of… — Joseph Heath Copy Share Image
One of the overriding points of Liberal Fascism is that all of the totalitarian "isms" of the left commit the fallacy of… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Ignorance, as well as disapproval for the natural restraints placed on market excesses that capitalism and sound markets impose, cause our present… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“the regression fallacy. The regression fallacy refers to the tendency to fail to recognize statistical regression when it occurs, and instead to… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
“People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Admittedly, having a bit of disposable cash in the bank can give you a sense of Buddhistic calm, and despite the fallacy… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
“Without good purpose and good intent you are but a fallacy -- a premise without a conclusion, brilliance without light, a journey… — Val Edward Simone Copy Share Image
People exaggerate their confidence in their plans - something we call the planning fallacy... The existence of the plan tends to induce… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“He'd built his career on the fallacy of clear boundaries between the material and the imagined, and the idea that the difference… — Katherine Lampe Copy Share Image
Sophistry, like poison, is at once detected and nauseated, when presented to us in a concentrated form; but a fallacy which, when… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
It wasn't sarcasm." Graves blew out a cloud of acrid smoke. "It was pointing out a fallacy in your logic, babe." Anna's… — Lilith Saintcrow Copy Share Image
I very much believe in the Intentional Fallacy. If Donald Trump lies and dopes and bumbles and staggers his way into peace… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
I think that what I do is a form of pathetic fallacy, the literary trope in which nature is in sympathy with… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
I'm offended by the is-ought fallacy, which has been used to justify slavery, women not being allowed to vote, children working in… — Moby Copy Share Image
And there's the fallacy of existence: the idea that one could be happy forever and age with a given situation or series… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
It is a fearful mistake for us to neglect the study of the Bible to investigate theories that are misleading, diverting minds… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Simple perception then is a fallacy. Besides the conscious prejudices that we are aware of imposing on the world, there are a… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I must begin with a good body of facts and not from a principle (in which I always suspect some fallacy) and… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy. — Peter Mullan Copy Share Image
There is a popular fallacy that falling down is the mark of a poor skater. But the truth is that when one… — Dick Button Copy Share Image
The message of "The Winner Takes It All" is straightforward: It argues that the concept of relationships ending on mutual terms is… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
We have a cultural notion that if children were not engineered, if we did not manipulate them, they would grow up as… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
The key fallacy of so called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
