Application Quote by Augustus William Hare

“There is almost no human action or decision that cannot be made to look flawed and less sensible in the misleading light of hindsight.…

— Sidney Dekker

“Logical minds, accustomed to be convinced by a chain of somewhat close reasoning, cannot avoid having recourse to this mode of persuasion when addressing…

— Gustave Le Bon

“He had the feeling that he must make a decision, and though he was used to making many decisions every day, this time he…

— Amos Oz

“By this time he had discovered that his neighbour was not very conversible; But whether her silence proceeded from pride, discretion, timidity, or idiotism,…

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

“Levin had often noticed in discussions between the most intelligent people that after enormous efforts, and an enormous expenditure of logical subtleties and words,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“All that rational thinking had to be thrown out the window. This was why he liked irrational thinking so much better. It took less…

— Abigail Roux

Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.

— Leo Tolstoy

“Not that any of the sysadmin’s knowledge and skills were applicable here. The psychological stance was the thing: the implicit faith, a little naive…

— Neal Stephenson

“Error in opinion has this peculiar advantage with it, that the foremost point of the contrary ground may at any time be reached by…

— Thomas Paine

“The man who establishes his argument by noise and command knows that his reason is weak.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“Moreover, he felt vaguely that what he called his convictions were not only ignorance but were a way of thinking that made the knowledge…

— Leo Tolstoy

“He assumed a manner that could be called circular irony. Everything he said, he said in quotes, with an artificial, exaggerated emphasis, and with…

— Stanisław Lem