Fallacy Quotes
142 quotes by 121 authors
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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
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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
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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
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The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.
— Marshall McLuhan
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.
— Ludwig von Mises
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.
— Craig Venter
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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
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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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