Fallacy Quotes

Fallacy Quote of the day

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

We have a cultural notion that if children were not engineered, if we did not manipulate them, they would grow up as beasts in the field. This is the wildest fallacy in the world.

It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to justify to himself and his fellows his own crass lust and folly.

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.

The biggest public fallacy is that the market is always right. The market is nearly always wrong. I can assure you of that.

Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.

The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.

The key fallacy of so called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law abiding citizens, while people bent on violence find firearms readily available.

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

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.

By committing the scientific method to religious claims you're committing a logical fallacy

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

The planning fallacy is that you make a plan, which is usually a best-case scenario. Then you assume that the outcome will follow your plan, even when you should know better.

"Isn't it fun getting older?" is really a terrible fallacy. That's like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire.

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.

The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside

Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time.

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

The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.

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

The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.

There is a popular fallacy that falling down is the mark of a poor skater. But the truth is that when one stops falling, he has probably stopped improving.

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.

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.

It is a fallacy of the old schools to divide man into parcels, elements, thoughts, emotions, intuitions, etc. All human faculties consist of an interconnected whole.

[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.

If we carry this line of argument to its logical conclusion, the meaning of life consists of the flaws in one's conceptions and what one does about them. Life can be seen as a fertile fallacy.

I'm always identifying some fallacy in my own life. I'm sort of making fun of myself by exploring and unpacking just why I'm sort of automatically thrown to be a certain way.

The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.

Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.

Wrong is wrong; no fallacy can hide it, no subterfuge cover it so shrewdly but that the All-Seeing One will discover and punish it.

The question of naturalism is a fallacy, it does not exist... The photographic image replaces naturalistic experience.

Zionism is the most stupendous fallacy in Jewish history

People exaggerate their confidence in their plans - something we call the planning fallacy... The existence of the plan tends to induce overconfidence.

Until I know this sure uncertainty, I'll entertain the offered fallacy.

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

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.

A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.

Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence.

I've never met anyone who has said, "My goal is to make America mediocre." That's a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.

Simple perception then is a fallacy. Besides the conscious prejudices that we are aware of imposing on the world, there are a thousand subconscious prejudices that we assume to be actuality.

It would be a fallacy to deduce that the slow writer necessarily comes up with superior work. There seems to be scant relationshipbetween prolificness and quality.

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.

The assumption that humans could be a reliable back up for the system was a fallacy!

It's hard bein' real in a world that's a fallacy.

I am a person who recognizes the fallacy of humans.

And there's the fallacy of existence: the idea that one could be happy forever and age with a given situation or series of accomplishments.

To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.

I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context.