Quotes About Fallacy

When truth is divided, errors multiply.

An error becomes an error when born as truth.

When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly half way between. It is possible for one side simply to be wrong.

A crude mind could easily think: something is valid, therefore it is true.

... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.

The whole is the false.

Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.

Half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult.

Nothing can be further than the truth.

Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case.

These are lies, there is not a word of truth in them.

...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.

Psychologists have long known that people see patterns where none exist.

He could argue a case for anything, but that doesn't change the fact he's wrong most of the time.

One of the most useful pieces of advice we've learned in our journalism careers is summed up in the phrase beware the fallacy of evil men.

Proof by analogy is fraud.

This is the typical fallacy on which all of CONSUMER AMERICA is based. Some piece of useless crap will make people like you.

And there is the fallacy of existence: the idea that one would be happy forever and aye with a given situation or series of accomplishments.

Working out whether or not the claims you make in your premises are true, while important, is simply not enough to ensure that you draw true conclusions. People make this mistake all the time. They forget that you can begin with a set of entirely true beliefs but reason so poorly as to end up with entirely false conclusions. The problem is that starting with truth doesn't guarantee ending up with it.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

Nothing is so mischievous as the apotheosis of error.

it often falls out that somewhat is produced of nothing; for lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

In her business, there were many who laughed at honest men, calling them easy pickings. That was a fallacy. Being honest did not make one naive. A dishonest fool and an honest fool were equally easy to scam; you just went about it in different ways. However, a man who was honest and clever was always, always more difficult to scam than someone who was both dishonest and clever.

post hoc ergo propter hoc