I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“Pride is a fallacy. None of us are greater than the sum of our parts.” — Eric Hirzel Copy Share Image
Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“The fallacy of conception: two halves join and expect to make a whole.” — Laura Elizabeth Woollett Copy Share Image
A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely… — John Fowles 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
I hate to force anything. A lot of people say that comedy is twenty percent truth, and eighty percent fallacy. I believe… — Tone Bell 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
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
Discrepancy between theory and practice, which in sound physical and mechanical science is a delusion, has a real existence in the minds… — William John Macquorn Rankine Copy Share Image
“The narrative fallacy, Bezos explained, was a term coined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his 2007 book The Black Swan to describe… — Anonymous 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
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
Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, and… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
When I saw the sun bears at the Oakland Zoo, I immediately was drawn to them. Not to be ornery, but regarding… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future. What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom… — Bernard Baruch 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
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
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
Darwin and his successors have railed against the fallacy of confusing the current utility of a trait with the reason the trait… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy — Benjamin Stolberg Copy Share Image
Until I know this sure uncertainty, I'll entertain the offered fallacy. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
By committing the scientific method to religious claims you're committing a logical fallacy — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
“This is the typical fallacy on which all of CONSUMER AMERICA is based. Some piece of useless crap will make people like… — Blake Nelson Copy Share Image
The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Objectivity is a fallacy...there are different opinions, but you dont give them equal weight. — Robert Bazell Copy Share Image
An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy. — Steven Weinberg 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
“The more intense the belief, the less likely that reason and evidence can dislodge it.” — Linda Elder Richard Paul Copy Share Image
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
We are most often inspired and motivated by fallacy rather than logic. — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts. — Timothy Dwight V 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
