Fallacies Quote by Helen DeWitt

There's more to logic than identifying logical fallacies.

— Criss Jami

Before he (Francis Bacon) came along, people conducted all their arguments through a series of logical fallacies or simply shouting louder than the other…

— Kevin Hearne

To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

“The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of which is perception.”

— Ashim Shanker

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

— Randal Marlin

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction

— Freya Stark

“Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

One of the most persistent fallacies about the Christian Church is that it kept learning alive during the Dark and Middle Ages. What the…

— Margaret E. Knight

It is a fearful mistake for us to neglect the study of the Bible to investigate theories that are misleading, diverting minds from the…

— Ellen G. White

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

— Anonymous

At least half of the popular fallacies about economics come from assuming that economic activity is a zero-sum game, in which what is gained…

— Thomas Sowell

“Any proposition containing the word "is" creates a linguistic structural confusion which will eventually give birth to serious fallacies.”

— Alfred Korzybski