Quotes About Fallacy

She wouldn't have to be lying to be wrong.

Everything popular is wrong. ~ OSCAR WILDE

I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see that they are often wrong.

Many business leaders still believe that time on-task equates to productivity. Even in the industrial era of rote factory work, this was untrue. It is a misguided fallacy, and an expensive one, too. Every key facet required for business success will fail when sleep becomes short within an organisation.

I think the most fundamental error we make is mistaking a noisy, anomalous event for the norm. This happens all the time - in the stock market, in reports of crime and natural disaster, etc. The fact is that big, noisy, anomalous events catch our attention because they're anomalous, which isn't a problem in and of itself.

To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy.

Such insights put to rest the century-old debate on nature versus nurture: do our genes or our experiences determine who we become? That debate turns out to be pointless, based on the fallacy that our genes and our environment are independent of each other; it's like arguing over which contributes more to the area of a rectangle, the length or the width.

Be careful of averages and how they're applied. One way that they can fool you is if the average combines samples from disparate populations. This can lead to absurd observations such as: On average, humans have one testicle.

Besides, my confidence that every person can be cured of his or her false beliefs through evidence has meanwhile significantly diminished. Oh, Mr. Brecht, I often think, people can really see an apple fall to the ground an simultaneously believe it when someone claims: It isn't falling. And there it is still the matter of more obvious natural laws!

Of all the myths surrounding academic writing, the fallacy of effortless productivity is among the most persistent.

For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong.

For every problem, there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong.

Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin.

We believe that when we choose anything, judge a stranger and even fall in love, we understand the principal factors that influenced us. Very often nothing could be further from the truth. As a result, many of our most basic assumptions about ourselves, and society, are false.

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

This idea that somehow or another, every idea on its face, because it's an idea, has some validity is ludicrous.

Translogic: A comment or statement that sounds logical and makes sense at the time it is said but when later closely examined it actually makes no sense at all.

A false dichotomy is considered a philosophical error, also called the "fallacy of the excluded middle," and falls in the category of the "false dilemma.

The sweet indifference of man's environment to his problems. Pathetic fallacy or no, I really felt it, an indifference to us that amounted to contempt.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.

Sophistry is the fallacy of argument.

When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy.

Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.