Fallacy Quotes

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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be… — Louis D. Brandeis
The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy. — Marshall McLuhan
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him. — Elbert Hubbard
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal… — Mark Twain
Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at… — Thomas Huxley
We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and… — Samuel Johnson
We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of others. It's very easy to… — Nicholas A. Christakis
As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific. — Ludwig von Mises
There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another ... All human experience… — Emma Goldman
A smattering of everything is worth little. It is a fallacy to suppose that an encyclopaedic knowledge is desirable. The mind is made strong, not… — Louis Agassiz
The weeds of a seemingly learned and brilliant but actually trivial and empty philosophy of Nature which, after having been replaced some 50 years ago… — Hermann Kolbe
Never say, and never take seriously anyone who says, 'I cannot believe that so-and-so could have evolved by gradual selection.' I have dubbed this kind… — Richard Dawkins
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional objectivity.… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
The supposed astronomical proofs of the theory [of relativity], as cited and claimed by Einstein, do not exist. He is a confusionist. The Einstein theory… — Charles Lane Poor
I think personal diplomacy has caused a lot of mischief and harm, and has impeded the progress of peace in the world. It leads to… — Paul Hasluck
Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective. — Craig Venter
In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in economics, evolutionary biology,… — Steven Pinker
Some of the most serious fallacies of traditional economics have been due to confusion between optimum and equilibrium conditions; the apparent influence of Dr. Pangloss… — Sir John Richard Hicks

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