“As if it were Injustice to sell dearer than we buy; or to give more to a man than he merits. The… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
You're never in control. That - that is the greatest fallacy of the - you know, there's over 200 people that it… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The general nature of the speech act fallacy can be stated as follows, using "good" as our example. Calling something good is… — John Searle Copy Share Image
The slight variations in extracting procedure cause many of the amygdalin (Vitamin B-17, Laetrile) molecules to change to a form unknown to… — Ernst T. Krebs 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
Until I know this sure uncertainty, I'll entertain the offered fallacy. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“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
...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The capacity for loving strangers, whether one thinks of them as fictional beings or stars one will never meet, is a profound… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
I don't think that those things [so called common practice] ever truly existed in the way that we like to believe that… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Sophistry, like poison, is at once detected and nauseated, when presented to us in a concentrated form; but a fallacy which, when… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Congress remains in total denial as our liberties are rapidly fading before our eyes. The process is propelled by unwarranted fear and… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy. — Peter Mullan 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
I think it's a fallacy that only people in elected office can come up with solutions that solve our problems. I just… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
Unquestionably the truth or fallacy of the theory of the survival of the soul is by far the most tremendous question that… — Ernest MacBride Copy Share Image
What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
For they (capitalists) hold as their chief heresy, in a coarser form, the fundamental falsehood that things are not made to be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy. — Trevor McDonald Copy Share Image
Economics is primarily useful, both to the student and to the political leader, as a prophylactic against popular fallacies. — Henry Calvert Simons Copy Share Image