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

And there is the fallacy of existence: the idea that one would be happy forever and aye with a given situation or series of accomplishments. — Sylvia Plath

Life may be miraculous in its unlikelihood in the universe, but it would be a fallacy to suggest that its rareness makes it inextinguishable. — John Hodgman

It hurts so badly when you grow up and understand that everything you believed in and devoted yourself were just fallacy and stupidity. — M.F. Moonzajer

After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?

{Said in a letter to Voltaire} — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

All the fallacies of human reason had to be exhausted, before the light of a high truth could meet with ready acceptance. — Max Muller

Perfection is a fallacy. Embrace the things you cannot change and fight for those you can. — Danielle Bourdon

We are most often inspired and motivated by fallacy rather than logic. — M.F. Moonzajer

The light obtained by setting straw men on fire is not what we mean by illumination. — Adam Gopnik

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

Every barber thinks everybody needs a haircut. — M.F. Moonzajer

Thanks Giving.
The Indian and the White Man together.
The pageantry spoke to me of civilization. — Stephen Graham Jones

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

One of the most useful pieces of advice we've learned in our journalism careers is summed up in the phrase "beware the fallacy of evil men. — Bill Kovach

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

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

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. — Elbert Hubbard

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

It is a fundamental fallacy to think that our human bodies work like the structures that humans have built. — Leslie Kaminoff

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

The God excuse, the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument. — George Carlin

To expect reason is where the fallacy lies. — Richard Russo

I must begin with a good body of facts and not from a principle (in which I always suspect some fallacy) and then as much deduction as you please. — Charles Darwin

But to subsist in bones, and be but Pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. — Thomas Browne

Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case. — Margaret Oliphant

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

Zionism is the most stupendous fallacy in Jewish history — Henry Morgenthau, Sr.

What we consider too good to be true, is truth; all else is fallacy — Oshetha Shakoor

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

Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy ... — Rasheed Ogunlaru

I love objectivity when mine. — Brian Spellman

As the science of economics ... exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific. — Ludwig Von Mises

It is only a mere fallacy to say you are quitting when your heartbeat is in tune with the beat. A real change is a real change! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

The idea that a large group of people believing in something automatically makes it true is a logical fallacy called argumentum ad populum. — Armin Navabi

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

This whole notion that it's somehow easy and simpler to live in the country is such a fallacy. — Meghan Daum

This is the typical fallacy on which all of CONSUMER AMERICA is based. Some piece of useless crap will make people like you. — Blake Nelson

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

The Keynesian belief that 'demand' is always at the root of underemployment and slow growth is a fallacy. — Edmund Phelps

The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies. — Ayn Rand

The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same. — Robert A. Heinlein

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

I am a person who recognizes the fallacy of humans. — George W. Bush

The sunk-cost fallacy keeps people for too long in poor jobs, unhappy marriages, and unpromising research projects. — Daniel Kahneman

Please be my friend. — Kevin Mcpherson Eckhoff

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

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. — H.L. Mencken

What a paradox it is, the sane causes more problems than the insane! It is! The real problems of the world do not come from the insane but, the sane! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

"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. — Katharine Hepburn

Exhausting someone in argument is not the same as convincing him — Tim Kreider

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

I'm offended by the is-ought fallacy, which has been used to justify slavery, women not being allowed to vote, children working in factories. — Moby

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful. — Ernest Hemingway,

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

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

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

A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it. — George Eliot

Sophistry is the fallacy of argument. — Henry Ward Beecher

Now there are almost as many fallacies in this sentence as there are words. — Millicent Garrett Fawcett

We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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. — Antoine Rivarol

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

De Bono argues that the West's tradition of settling disagreement by debate or argument is an example of overreliance on logic. — Steve Volk

He'd built his career on the fallacy of clear boundaries between the material and the imagined, and the idea that the difference mattered. — Katherine Lampe

Objectivity is a fallacy ... there are different opinions, but you dont give them equal weight. — Robert Bazell

By exposing the fallacy of the UK's extradition arrangements with the US, I leave with my head held high having won the moral victory. — Babar Ahmad

We have far too many ways to interpret past events for our own good. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It's a fallacy that people think that today's teenagers are shallow or somehow less intelligent than in the past. — Margaret Stohl

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

If proof were the standard of truth, fallacies would constitute the ultimate reality. — Raheel Farooq

consensus fallacy - the idea that if many people believe something, some position, or some ideology, it must be true. Consensus — MJ DeMarco

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

It's a fallacy to believe that age in itself brings wisdom, but one thing it infallibly brings is experience. — Gillian Linscott

It does bear emphasis that slippery-slope arguments are notoriously invalid. — Jerry A. Fodor

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

Pride is a fallacy. None of us are greater than the sum of our parts. — Eric Hirzel

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

Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective. — Craig Venter

Some people take what they need from the orchard, and other people pick the orchard clean."
From - "The Mind Game Company - The Players — Andrew Neff

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

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

Half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult. — Mary Renault

That technology has canceled geography contains just enough merit to be called a plausible fallacy, — Robert D. Kaplan