I think it's a fallacy that the harder you practice the…

A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional…

— Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

Life may be miraculous in its unlikelihood in the universe, but it would be a fallacy to suggest that its rareness makes it inextinguishable.

— John Hodgman

There's a fallacy with stand up comedy, which is, people come up to comedians, and they go, 'You say what I think but I'm…

— Jim Jefferies

By committing the scientific method to religious claims you're committing a logical fallacy

— Francis Collins

If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all the world…

— Charles Kingsley

Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should guarantee to every citizen the…

— Frederic Bastiat

The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of…

— Thomas Merton

Zoocentrism is the primary fallacy of human sociobiology, for this view of human behavior rests on the argument that if the actions of "lower"…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning.

— Randal Marlin

Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins.

— H. L. Mencken

The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people…

— William Osler

There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games…

— Washington Irving

The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not…

— Hannah Arendt

Every liberal position is built on a fallacy.

— Ken Cuccinelli

“Every argument against the God of the Bible is based on made-up stuff.”

— Petros Scientia