Fallacy Quotes

142 quotes by 121 authors

The General Theory was not truly revolutionary at all but merely old and oft-refuted mercantilist and inflationist fallacies dressed up in shiny new garb, replete… — Murray Rothbard
...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Simple perception then is a fallacy. Besides the conscious prejudices that we are aware of imposing on the world, there are a thousand subconscious prejudices… — Colin Wilson
Life may be miraculous in its unlikelihood in the universe, but it would be a fallacy to suggest that its rareness makes it inextinguishable. — John Hodgman
The key insight of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is misleadingly simple: if an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will not take place… — Milton Friedman
Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the subject would be… — Henry Hazlitt
Before he (Francis Bacon) came along, people conducted all their arguments through a series of logical fallacies or simply shouting louder than the other guy,… — Kevin Hearne
Money makes people rich; it is a fallacy to think it makes them better, or even that it makes them worse. People are what they… — Terry Pratchett
One thing has not changed: to doubt the worth of minority students' achievement when they succeed is really only to present another face of the… — Sonia Sotomayor
The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same. — Robert A. Heinlein
We have a cultural notion that if children were not engineered, if we did not manipulate them, they would grow up as beasts in the… — Joseph Chilton Pearce
The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano… — Sydney J. Harris
An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy. — Steven Weinberg
People assume that because you have graced the same stage as the star act, in front of thousands, you must be reaping similar financial rewards.… — John Barrow
Utter happiness is a fallacy. The best most of us can hope for is that occasional span of time which occurs at irregular lengths and… — Anthony Beal
An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy — Benjamin Stolberg
The first step to wisdom is to avoid the common fallacy which considers everything profound that is obscure — Gregory Nunn
Love is fallacy! — Cherry Belle Jimenez
You can't recover memories of a missing event. That's a fallacy. — Betty Hill
That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative… — Harold Washington

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