Fallacy Quotes

142 quotes by 121 authors

The narrative fallacy addresses our limited ability to look at sequences of facts without weaving an explanation into them, or, equivalently, forcing a logical link,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual dimension with its… — Nelson Mandela
I think it's a fallacy that the harder you practice the better you get. — Buddy Rich
By exposing the fallacy of the UKâ€™s extradition arrangements with the US, I leave with my head held high having won the moral victory. — Babar Ahmad
The fallacy in the progressive critique is the egalitarian dogma that no one should get more than what liberals deem is a 'fair' reward, nor… — Robert Agostinelli
The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection… — Samuel Johnson
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
Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence. — Lewis Mumford
I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men… — Christina Hoff Sommers
The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened. — George C. Williams
In learning and argumentation, the quality brain is similar to a facility of maximum security. What passes the logic test, free of fallacy and pretense,… — Criss Jami
To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy. — Trevor McDonald
The divergent series are the invention of the devil, and it is a shame to base on them any demonstration whatsoever. By using them, one… — Niels Henrik Abel
The biggest public fallacy is that the market is always right. The market is nearly always wrong. I can assure you of that. — Jim Rogers
The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which… — Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought… — Robert A. Heinlein
It's hard bein' real in a world that's a fallacy. — Meyhem Lauren
For they (capitalists) hold as their chief heresy, in a coarser form, the fundamental falsehood that things are not made to be used but made… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other… — Clifford Allbutt
There is no permanent place in this universe for evil... Evil may hide behind this fallacy and that, but it will be hunted from fallacy… — Thomas Carlyle

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