The great fallacy is that the game is first and last about winning. It is nothing of the kind. The game is… — Danny Blanchflower Copy Share Image
“It’s time to introduce a new fallacy that we have coined the Kool-Aid Fallacy. It goes like this: “You disagree with me… — Thomas Stark Copy Share Image
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“Since the topic is science, the non scientists don't get a vote. We shouldn't decide everything by polling the masses. This is… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
One of the most persistent fallacies about the Christian Church is that it kept learning alive during the Dark and Middle Ages.… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
Some of the most serious fallacies of traditional economics have been due to confusion between optimum and equilibrium conditions; the apparent influence… — Sir John Richard Hicks Copy Share Image
It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The 'regular' school of medicine, as a body, has ignored and will ignore this science, because it discloses the fallacy of their… — Henry Lindlahr Copy Share Image
The more important point, however, is not about what the money does. It's about what has to be done to get the… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
When science shall have effectually demonstrated to us the origin of matter, and proved the fallacy of the occultists and old philosophers… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
There's a tremendous popular fallacy which holds that significant research can be carried out by trying things. Actually it is easy to… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
Obamacare is collapsing. It's dead. It's gone. There's nothing to compare anything to because we don't have health care in this country.… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of others. It's… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
The words 'theory' and 'practice' are of Greek origin; they carry our thoughts back to the ancient philosophers by whom they were… — William John Macquorn Rankine Copy Share Image
“The fallacy is one of the fifty fallacies that come from the modern madness for biological or bodily metaphors. It is convenient… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I think that it is a fallacy to suppose that helpful cooperation in the future will be assured by the attempted compulsion… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
For me with art and all that stuff - I like abstraction. I like contortion. I mean, it's still truth. But it's… — Q-Tip Copy Share Image
“The terrible, tragic fallacy of the last hundred years has been to think that all man's troubles are due to his environment,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of others. It's… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committing a god-of-the-gaps fallacy (the fallacy of using God as… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
So long as the processes of healing were not understood and man thought that the power to heal resided in substances and… — Herbert M. Shelton Copy Share Image
We are easily deceived about government because we are inclined to accept the following fallacies: (a) Anything legal is also moral. (b)… — H. Verlan Andersen Copy Share Image
One thing has not changed: to doubt the worth of minority students' achievement when they succeed is really only to present another… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Before he (Francis Bacon) came along, people conducted all their arguments through a series of logical fallacies or simply shouting louder than… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
“it seems that once again people engage in a search for evidence that is biased toward confirmation. Asked to assess the similarity… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“Anything could be true. The so-called laws of Nature were nonsense. The law of gravity was nonsense. 'If I wished,' O'Brien had… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I think personal diplomacy has caused a lot of mischief and harm, and has impeded the progress of peace in the world.… — Paul Hasluck Copy Share Image
The supposed astronomical proofs of the theory [of relativity], as cited and claimed by Einstein, do not exist. He is a confusionist.… — Charles Lane Poor Copy Share Image