Fallacy Quotes

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See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy… — Wole Soyinka
The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending… — Eliot Spitzer
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
Literary fiction and poetry are real marginalized right now. There's a fallacy that some of my friends sometimes fall into, the ol' "The audience is… — David Foster Wallace
Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck the surface with… — Dorothy L. Sayers
To expect reason is where the fallacy lies. — Richard Russo
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful. — Ernest Hemingway
A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely. — Vladimir Nabokov
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
The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other… — Thomas Merton
There is a fallacy that the powerful emotion of youth mellows with time. Not true. One learns to control and suppress it. But it doesn't… — Nicole Krauss
It wasn't sarcasm." Graves blew out a cloud of acrid smoke. "It was pointing out a fallacy in your logic, babe." Anna's jaw actually dropped.… — Lilith Saintcrow
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 message of "The Winner Takes It All" is straightforward: It argues that the concept of relationships ending on mutual terms is an emotional fallacy.… — Chuck Klosterman
Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committing a god-of-the-gaps fallacy (the fallacy of using God as a stop-gap for… — William A. Dembski
Until I know this sure uncertainty, I'll entertain the offered fallacy. — William Shakespeare
The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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