Fallacy Quotes

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.
John Ruskin

Feelings, Same, Pathetic

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Thomas Huxley

Best, Science, Sense

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

Beautiful, Democracy, Practice

A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.
Henri Poincare

Mind, Guilty, Minds

The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument.
Eliot Spitzer

Future, Political, Able

It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was distracted I could never get anything done.
Jodi Picoult

Time, Done, Write

See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.
Wole Soyinka

Strong, Call, Contrary

I think it's a fallacy that the harder you practice the better you get.
Buddy Rich

Practice, Harder

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.
William Lyon Phelps

Life, Time, Person

A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy.
Peter Mullan

Good, Directors

Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy.
Niklaus Wirth

Cannot, Others, Another

You can't recover memories of a missing event. That's a fallacy.
Betty Hill

Memories, Missing, Event

That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income.
Harold Washington

Made, America, Show

I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.
Christina Hoff Sommers

Women, Men, Happen

The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.
Douglas Haig

War, Waiting, Enemy

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

Work, Action, Third

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

Living, After, Pretend

People assume that because you have graced the same stage as the star act, in front of thousands, you must be reaping similar financial rewards. This is a complete fallacy.
John Barrow

Same, Act, Star

The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened.
George C. Williams

Simple, Doubt, Whether

An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
Steven Weinberg

Person, Small, While

The fallacy in the progressive critique is the egalitarian dogma that no one should get more than what liberals deem is a 'fair' reward, nor should there be any risk to anyone to fail.
Robert Agostinelli

Anyone, Fair, Risk

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