The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in… — Steven Pinker 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
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
“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
Just because science can't in practice explain things like the love that motivates a poet to write a sonnet, that doesn't mean… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Objectivity is a fallacy...there are different opinions, but you dont give them equal weight. — Robert Bazell 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
The more time, toil, and sacrifice spent by a population in producing medicine as a commodity, the larger will be the by-product,… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
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
The fact that man produces a concept "I" besides the totality of his mental and emotional experiences or perceptions does not prove… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
By exposing the fallacy of the UK’s extradition arrangements with the US, I leave with my head held high having won the… — Babar Ahmad Copy Share Image
The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“I cannot give up on my values and beliefs for the sake of respecting someone else’s values and morals. Because those values… — M.F. Moonzajer 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
It begins with skepticism. The history of human folly, and our own susceptibility to illusions and fallacies, tell us that men and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It… — Anonymous 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
The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It… — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
