Fallacy Quote by Alfred Korzybski

“Whenever there’s a problem B, we assume that event A caused it. The financial crisis is caused by bankers; the loss of jobs is…

— Jurgen Appelo

“The deeper we go in search of causes, the more of them we find, and each cause taken singly or whole series of causes…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The masses often let themselves down and even those at the forefront who are hoisting the flag of the cause that is intended to…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

“It is not always necessary to search for the cause behind everything, because every cause is unfounded. A cause only looks like a cause…

— László Krasznahorkai

“Have we not already seen enough of the fallacy and extravagance of those idle theories which have amused us with promises of an exemption…

— Alexander Hamilton

“The terrible, tragic fallacy of the last hundred years has been to think that all man's troubles are due to his environment, and that…

— Anonymous

“Generations of Humeans have… been misled into offering analyses of causation and of natural law that have been far too weak because they had…

— Anonymous

“...let it be remembered that most men live in a world of their own, and that in that limited circle alone are they ambitious…

— Charles Dickens

“The worth of a cause is not necessarily proportional to the lengths to which people will go to promote it.”

— Theodore Dalrymple

“The afflicted are basically the majority or only set of people who are insulted by injustice in society today.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“It takes a man of unusual character to openly confront his own shortcomings. It’s so much more convenient to blame others.”

— Raymond E. Feist

“As you can see, it is very hard to say what causation is. This has led some philosophers to deny that there are causes…

— David S. Kidder