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
Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is the 'zoomorphic' or 'rattomorphic' fallacy - the expressed or implicit contention that there is no essential difference between rat and… — Ludwig von Bertalanffy Copy Share Image
It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a… — Anonymous 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
Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not… — George C. Williams Copy Share Image
The fallacy is that politicians don't really do much about social issues. They just demonize their opponents as elitists and reap the… — Timothy Noah 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
In love, for example - the so-called love - we are 'related.' We appear to be related. We create the fallacy of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The divergent series are the invention of the devil, and it is a shame to base on them any demonstration whatsoever. By… — Niels Henrik Abel Copy Share Image
Probably the most pervasive false belief most of us harbor is the fallacy that only some superhuman act would have the power… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
In this deeply nuanced portrait of an American family, Bret Anthony Johnston fearlessly explores the truth behind a mythic happy ending. In… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent than being truthful. When the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I remember reading about a court case where a man tried to stab a judge with a pencil. There are Google pages… — Don Ihde 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
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
There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
“What a paradox it is, the sane causes more problems than the insane! It is! The real problems of the world do… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
Never say, and never take seriously anyone who says, 'I cannot believe that so-and-so could have evolved by gradual selection.' I have… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
