“After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility? {Said in a letter to Voltaire }” — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 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 greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Perfection is a fallacy. Embrace the things you cannot change and fight for those you can.” — Danielle Bourdon Copy Share Image
Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult. — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
The message of "The Winner Takes It All" is straightforward: It argues that the concept of relationships ending on mutual terms is… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
There is a popular fallacy that falling down is the mark of a poor skater. But the truth is that when one… — Dick Button Copy Share Image
I must begin with a good body of facts and not from a principle (in which I always suspect some fallacy) and… — Charles Darwin 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
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
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
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
And there's the fallacy of existence: the idea that one could be happy forever and age with a given situation or series… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“[...] a familiar art historical narrative [...] celebrates the triumph of the expressive individual over the collective, of innovation over tradition, and… — Grant H. Kester Copy Share Image
The supposed astronomical proofs of the theory [of relativity], as cited and claimed by Einstein, do not exist. He is a confusionist.… — Charles Lane Poor Copy Share Image
I think personal diplomacy has caused a lot of mischief and harm, and has impeded the progress of peace in the world.… — Paul Hasluck Copy Share Image
“Anything could be true. The so-called laws of Nature were nonsense. The law of gravity was nonsense. 'If I wished,' O'Brien had… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“it seems that once again people engage in a search for evidence that is biased toward confirmation. Asked to assess the similarity… — Thomas Gilovich 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
One thing has not changed: to doubt the worth of minority students' achievement when they succeed is really only to present another… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
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
A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective. — Craig Venter Copy Share Image
"Isn't it fun getting older?" is really a terrible fallacy. That's like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat… — Katharine Hepburn 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
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
The question of naturalism is a fallacy, it does not exist... The photographic image replaces naturalistic experience. — Sid Grossman Copy Share Image
“It is a fundamental fallacy to think that our human bodies work like the structures that humans have built.” — Kaminoff, Leslie Copy Share Image
The biggest public fallacy is that the market is always right. The market is nearly always wrong. I can assure you of… — Jim Rogers Copy Share Image
When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy. — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
The assumption that humans could be a reliable back up for the system was a fallacy! — Astro Teller Copy Share Image
I think it's a fallacy that the harder you practice the better you get. — Buddy Rich Copy Share Image
Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy... — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
“consensus fallacy—the idea that if many people believe something, some position, or some ideology, it must be true. Consensus” — MJ DeMarco 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
“Don’t ever let your deeds oppose the same thing you seek to promote! That is a big fallacy!” — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught. — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
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