Fallacies Quotes

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Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of… — Milton Friedman
Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid… — Steven Pinker
The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It is a fearful mistake for us to neglect the study of the Bible to investigate theories that are misleading, diverting minds from the words… — Ellen G. White
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
One of the terrible fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy is that if people would just say how they felt, a lot of problems could be solved. — Elizabeth Wurtzel
One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is… — John Fowles
Democracy is grounded upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even halfwits would… — H. L. Mencken
The General Theory was not truly revolutionary at all but merely old and oft-refuted mercantilist and inflationist fallacies dressed up in shiny new garb, replete… — Murray Rothbard
The key insight of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is misleadingly simple: if an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will not take place… — Milton Friedman
Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the subject would be… — Henry Hazlitt
Before he (Francis Bacon) came along, people conducted all their arguments through a series of logical fallacies or simply shouting louder than the other guy,… — Kevin Hearne
Democracy is based upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even half-wits would… — Henry Louis Mencken
Leaving prices out of the picture is probably the source of more fallacies in economics than any other single misconception. — Thomas Sowell
To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its… — Samuel Johnson

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