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Fallacy Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- 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,…
- 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…
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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… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the… — Louis D. Brandeis
- The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy. — Marshall McLuhan
- A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man… — Elbert Hubbard
- It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by… — Mark Twain
- Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they… — Thomas Huxley
- We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled… — Samuel Johnson