Quotes About Fallacy

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

For every subtle and complicated question, there is a perfectly simple and straightforward answer, which is wrong.

Astrology is a sickness, not a science ... It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive.

Trust is the delusion of truth with ill fated consequences

There is no truth in him.

The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and the books. They are useful public servants, who manage libraries in the interest of the public... Many still think that a great reader, or a writer of books, will make an excellent librarian. This is pure fallacy.

In our own stock-market experience and observation, extending over 50 years, we have not known a single person who has consistently or lastingly made money by thus "following the market." We do not hesitate to declare that this approach is as fallacious as it is popular.

Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.

In a man whose reasoning powers are good, fallacious arguments are evidence of bias.

I feel a real and solid pleasure when anybody points out a fallacy in any of my views, because I care much less about my opinions than about their being true.

Thinking that you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone.

Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false. To know the truth is more difficult than most men suppose, and to act with ruthless determination in the belief that truth is the monopoly of their party is to invite disaster.

Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic.

A lot of people were mistaken about a lot of things.

Pero todos comparten la misma falla trágica; todos tuvieron la opción de salvarse y tomaron el camino de la catástrofe; y sus novelas son dedicados estudios de ese largo error y de sus consecuencias.

There's nothing in Hollywood that's inherently detrimental to good art. I think that's a fallacy that we've created because we frame the work that way too overtly. 'This is Hollywood.' 'This isn't Hollywood.' It's like, 'No, this is actually all Hollywood.' People are just framing them differently.

The narrative fallacy, Bezos explained, was a term coined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his 2007 book The Black Swan to describe how humans are biologically inclined to turn complex realities into soothing but oversimplified stories.

We're all wrong, every one of us.

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

Wrong is for other people.

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.

The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.