The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I never enquire into the origin of things, all Origin is a fallacy (in this I follow Nietzsche: origin is a very… — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
When you find the right components in your life, the right people, that gel with you, then you feel as though you're… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
If we carry this line of argument to its logical conclusion, the meaning of life consists of the flaws in one's conceptions… — George Soros Copy Share Image
I think that what I do is a form of pathetic fallacy, the literary trope in which nature is in sympathy with… — Elizabeth Wein 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
“To be acknowledged that we do not believe in their misleading notion and fallacy, today, tomorrow and forever even if it costs… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
A prevalent fallacy is the assumption that a proof of an afterlife would also be a proof of the existence of a… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
The question we must ask ourselves as a culture is whether we want to embrace the change that must come, or resist… — Howard Lyman 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
“I've spent a life-time attacking religious beliefs and have not wavered from a view of the universe that many would regard as… — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
The weeds of a seemingly learned and brilliant but actually trivial and empty philosophy of Nature which, after having been replaced some… — Hermann Kolbe Copy Share Image
“This should not come as a surprise: overly optimistic forecasts of the outcome of projects are found everywhere. Amos and I coined… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“The fallacy was obvious. It presupposed that somewhere or other, outside oneself, there was a “real” world where “real” things happened. But… — George Orwell 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
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
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
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
I'm offended by the is-ought fallacy, which has been used to justify slavery, women not being allowed to vote, children working in… — Moby 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
It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
We have a cultural notion that if children were not engineered, if we did not manipulate them, they would grow up as… — Joseph Chilton Pearce 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
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
I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“The sunk cost fallacy is most dangerous when we have invested a lot of time, money, energy, or love in something. This… — Rolf Dobelli 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
Life may be miraculous in its unlikelihood in the universe, but it would be a fallacy to suggest that its rareness makes… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
The key fallacy of so called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm… — Thomas Sowell 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
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
“He'd built his career on the fallacy of clear boundaries between the material and the imagined, and the idea that the difference… — Katherine Lampe 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
It wasn't sarcasm." Graves blew out a cloud of acrid smoke. "It was pointing out a fallacy in your logic, babe." Anna's… — Lilith Saintcrow 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
We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled… — Samuel Johnson 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
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
