Quotes About Fallacy

ALOGY  (A'LOGY)   n.s. Unreasonableness; absurdity.Dict.

People who have good arguments use them. People who do not have good arguments try to win by labeling.

Humans think they are rational, and they think they understand their reality. But they are wrong on both counts.

Even if Man's accustomed to take His small world for the Whole, that's his mistake:

The most may err as grossly as the few.

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.

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

The fallacy that a stock that has once sold at 150 must be cheap at 130 and a bargain at 120.

The false appearances verify the lies.

this must be part of some pathetic fallacy, whereby if you fall in love with one man, all men instantly become desirable, whether they actually are or not.

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls into the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

The fallacy that passes for truth by the mere frequency of its repetition is a particular peril for lawyers working in the common-law system. Like all men and women, we are comfortable with familiar formulations, and in addition are trained to follow what has been said before. It is sometimes worth pausing to consider whether it has been said aright.

Believe only that we see from own eyes & feel from own heart; and not the controversy or anything that is shown by trending views on social media and buzzing news on TV. That's way to avert fallacy & know the ground reality.

To make the worse appear the better reason.

There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause:

Fallacy, Fallacy. - He cannot rule himself; therefore that woman concludes that it will be easy to rule him, and throws out her lines to catch him;-the poor creature, who in a short time will be his slave.

A word of caution, then, is necessary when a statement is made by a scientist turned philosopher, just as a word of caution is necessary when a statement is made by a philosopher turned scientist, or an automobile manufacturer turned historian, or an oil man turned authority on church unity. This does not mean to imply that all the wrong is on the side of the scientists. Very often philosophers and theologians commit the same fallacy by passing premature judgments in the conclusions of science.

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.

the argument for the perfectibility of humankind rests on a logical fallacy. Thus: man is by definition imperfect, say those who would perfect him. But those who would perfect him are themselves, by their own definition, imperfect.

Miss Scace died years ago." "Appearances can be deceptive. She only looks dead.

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.

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

Obviously I was mistaken.