“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
Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Metaphysical fallacies contain the only clues we have to what thinking means to those who engage in it. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Leaving prices out of the picture is probably the source of more fallacies in economics than any other single misconception. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Illusions as bad as mine make people aware of the fallacies of visual information and the pleasure to be derived from such… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
“The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of which is perception.” — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The poorly sophisticated, since many of us are, as presumed to be, lacking in good arguments, we are then prone to being… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at… — Milton Friedman 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
“Few fallacies are more dangerous or easier to fall into than that by which, having read a given book, we assume that… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
If fallacies come knocking at my door,I'd rather feed, and shelter full a score,Than hide behind the black portcullis, doubt,And run the… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“The idea that someone is more knowledgeable simply because of the greater amount of time they have spent on this Earth is… — Noah Reznik Copy Share Image
The key insight of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is misleadingly simple: if an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
At least half of the popular fallacies about economics come from assuming that economic activity is a zero-sum game, in which what… — Thomas Sowell 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
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
“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
“[T]hough in all practical matters it is indispensable, either always or mostly, to follow custom, to do what is generally done, in… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
“Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
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
Often, there are fallacies when a journalist or a fan and sometimes even a coach who has never been a goalkeeper sees… — Gianluigi Buffon Copy Share Image
“Here was a man who'd learned to write before he could think, a man who threw out logical fallacies like tacks behind… — Helen DeWitt Copy Share Image
“Any proposition containing the word "is" creates a linguistic structural confusion which will eventually give birth to serious fallacies.” — Alfred Korzybski 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
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
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
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