Fallacy Quotes

142 quotes by 121 authors

It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a fallacy.… — Bertrand Russell
People exaggerate their confidence in their plans - something we call the planning fallacy... The existence of the plan tends to induce overconfidence. — Daniel Kahneman
The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and… — William Osler
The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work. — Harold Washington
Probably the most pervasive false belief most of us harbor is the fallacy that only some superhuman act would have the power to turn our… — Tony Robbins
The assumption that humans could be a reliable back up for the system was a fallacy! — Astro Teller
There's more to logic than identifying logical fallacies. — Criss Jami
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
It is a fallacy to think that carping is the strongest form of criticism: the important work begins after the artist's mistakes have been pointed… — Wilfrid Sheed
It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to justify to himself… — William Faulkner
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
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. — Thomas Huxley
Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy… — Daniel Kahneman
The planning fallacy is that you make a plan, which is usually a best-case scenario. Then you assume that the outcome will follow your plan,… — Daniel Kahneman
Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. — Benito Mussolini
It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I… — Jodi Picoult
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
A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations. — Henri Poincare
What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny… — Tom Robbins
All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize… — John Ruskin

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