Beneficial Quote by Hans F. Sennholz

“It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me, that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to man.”

— John Steinbeck

Now the most comprehensive conception of this new world is of one politically, socially and economically united To this end a small but increasing…

— H. G. Wells

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

— Ron Paul

There are people who are socially ambitious. If you go back aways, the Sculls, for instance, had a lot of money and they were…

— Garry Winogrand

The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people…

— William Osler

Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins.

— H. L. Mencken

Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning.

— Randal Marlin

Zoocentrism is the primary fallacy of human sociobiology, for this view of human behavior rests on the argument that if the actions of "lower"…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of…

— Thomas Merton

Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should guarantee to every citizen the…

— Frederic Bastiat

If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all the world…

— Charles Kingsley

By committing the scientific method to religious claims you're committing a logical fallacy

— Francis Collins

There's a fallacy with stand up comedy, which is, people come up to comedians, and they go, 'You say what I think but I'm…

— Jim Jefferies

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

A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional…

— Cyril Norman Hinshelwood