There's a fallacy with stand up comedy, which is, people come up to comedians, and they go, 'You say what I think… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
What Western society teaches us is that if you get enough money, power, and beautiful people to have sex with, that's going… — Adam Yauch Copy Share Image
One of the terrible fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy is that if people would just say how they felt, a lot of problems… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“Our entire economy is based on productivity measures that have little to do with “human input”. Sooner or later the entire system… — Said Elias Dawlabani Copy Share Image
The more time, toil, and sacrifice spent by a population in producing medicine as a commodity, the larger will be the by-product,… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another ...… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others.… — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at… — John Dewey 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
“For Paley, a watch is purposeful and thus must have been created by a being with a purpose. A watch needs a… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should guarantee to every… — Frederic Bastiat 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
“Without awareness of common pitfalls such as confirmation bias, positive-outcome bias, and subjective validation, a person trained in logic and fallacy detection… — Robert Carroll 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
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
“A number of years ago, when I was a freshly-appointed instructor, I met, for the first time, a certain eminent historian of… — Isaac Asimov 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
I think there's a fallacy that's been concocted by the music teachers' profession, to wit: that there's a certain sequence of events… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
We cannot but think there is something like a fallacy in Mr. Buckle's theory that the advance of mankind is necessarily in… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I live by fallacy. 'If I get enough nice Ikea furniture, I'll be a grown-up.' Then I catch myself. Or, 'If I… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Without good purpose and good intent you are but a fallacy -- a premise without a conclusion, brilliance without light, a journey… — Val Edward Simone Copy Share Image
A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“The idea that people could get along fine with just markets, and no government, turned out to rest upon a version of… — Joseph Heath Copy Share Image
It is a fallacy of the old schools to divide man into parcels, elements, thoughts, emotions, intuitions, etc. All human faculties consist… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
“...the argument for the perfectibility of humankind rests on a logical fallacy. Thus: man is by definition imperfect, say those who would… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Author discussed what he calls the "narrative fallacy." This refers to our "limited ability" to look at a sequence of facts "without… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The fallacy in the progressive critique is the egalitarian dogma that no one should get more than what liberals deem is a… — Robert Agostinelli Copy Share Image
The General Theory was not truly revolutionary at all but merely old and oft-refuted mercantilist and inflationist fallacies dressed up in shiny… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
I think it's a fallacy to say that a good book sells itself. It doesn't happen. I'm a voracious reader and I… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
There is no permanent place in this universe for evil... Evil may hide behind this fallacy and that, but it will be… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The fallacy is that you have to hold some sort of stake in the grief or horror in order to write about… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Just because science can't in practice explain things like the love that motivates a poet to write a sonnet, that doesn't mean… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Democracy is grounded upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A smattering of everything is worth little. It is a fallacy to suppose that an encyclopaedic knowledge is desirable. The mind is… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
“Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Have we not already seen enough of the fallacy and extravagance of those idle theories which have amused us with promises of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
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