Quotes About Fallacy

I'm too young to die. The fallacy of youth. Death had never cared about the ages of those it claimed.

The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents.

The fallacy that Morley in his life of Gladstone asserts to be the greatest affliction of politicians; it is indeed a common plague of humanity. It is: The fallacy of attributing to one cause what is due to many causes.

The effect of the brainwashing is that we tend to think like the man who, having fallen off a 100-story building is heard to say as he passes the fiftieth floor, 'So far, so good!

El hombre del Mediodía no miente, se equivoca. No dice siempre la verdad, pero cree que la dice… Para él, su mentira no es mentira. Es una especie de espejismo…

If you read what seems to be the current line of thinking among business gurus, you will often see them decry the fallacy of "best practices.

There is a pit forming the radius of which is only men. 'A circle (pit) with no women in is not a circle but a fallace

It's always tempting to mistake your personal decline for the decline of the human species

There ain't no such animal.

Statistics can be made to prove anything - even the truth.

A single fact can spoil a good argument.

Another lie in a life that had been nothing but lies.

La verité dans sa matière brute est plus fausse que la faux.

How easy it was to mistake clear reasoning for correct reasoning!

This is the fallacy of power: ultimately, it is effective only in an absolute, a limited universe. But the basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day. —Benito Mussolini Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry. —Winston Churchill

Stefan Collini comments that the "fallacy of accountability" is "the belief that the process of reporting on an activity in the approved form provides some guarantee that something worthwhile has been properly done" (What Are Universities For? 108). The

We have a definition in our heads of what an advantage is—and the definition isn't right. And what happens as a result? It means that we make mistakes.

We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.

The brain is so wrong, all the time she says, turning to the dark landscape again. Wrong about what time it is, and who people are, and where home is: wrong wrong wrong. The lying brain.

The brain is so wrong, all the time. [...] Wrong about what time it is, and who people are, and where home is: wrong wrong wrong. The lying brain.

in the present. As we are about to see, however, both of these assumptions are false.

On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow one's own advice. However, there are deeper insights to be had about the nature of our minds. Unfortunately, they have been discussed entirely in the context of religion and, therefore, have been shrouded in fallacy and superstition for all of human history.

Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.