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Fallacy Quotes by Sydney J. Harris
- The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.
- The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano…
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- 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
- Some of the most serious fallacies of traditional economics have been due to confusion between optimum and equilibrium conditions; the apparent influence… — Sir John Richard Hicks
- All logic texts are divided into two parts. In the first part, on deductible logic, the fallacies are explained; in the second… — Morris Raphael Cohen
- The question we must ask ourselves as a culture is whether we want to embrace the change that must come, or resist… — Howard Lyman
- The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and… — Thomas Merton
- The key insight of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is misleadingly simple: if an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will… — Milton Friedman
- [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