Fallacy Quotations

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.

I think it's a fallacy to say that a good book sells itself. It doesn't happen. I'm a voracious reader and I can give you a long list of books which should have been best sellers but they aren't. How can you buy a book if you haven't heard of it?

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

There's a horrible fallacy that exists in the popular discussion of fiction these days: the idea that a successful central character need be 'likeable' or 'sympathetic'. It is surely more important that they be human, no? More crucial that they breathe?

I feel that The American Dream is this fallacy that you come to the United States and win lotto. That's a disservice to The American Dream because the American Dream is worth striving for. And it's not easy.

It is a fallacy that a broker needs to shore up any real estate transaction engaged in by two people. A simple attorney for a purchase-and-sale review is all you need, and a home inspection.

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

We were very interested in avoiding the fallacy that you can replicate on three completely different people the performance of the three other people.

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

The same would be true of telephone companies selling cable TV. That's the fallacy of the bundle idea, because consumers have a mindset about the provider.

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

As I tried to emphasize in the commentary, hindsight plus the logical fallacy can be a dangerous combination. But can you look at the list of the 10 juxtapositions, especially the two that pertain to around the time of the Democratic Convention last year? And obviously, there are lists that are longer that have been compiled elsewhere that are based on different criteria and are of different merit. But can you look at that list of 10 juxtapositions and say that, in your heart, you're comfortable that not once were political considerations a factor in any of the counterterrorism statements or actions of the government?

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.

The fallacy of monetary policy in the U.S. is to believe this money will go to the man on the street. It won't. It goes to the Mayfair economy of the well-to-do people and boosts asset prices of Warhols... Very happy. Very good for the Fed. Congratulations, Mr. Bernanke.

a huge fallacy to suppose that one community is somehow more intrinsically prone to violence or outrage than any other.

The first step to wisdom is to avoid the common fallacy which considers everything profound that is obscure

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

It's a fallacy that the president only wants to hear from you if you agree,

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

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

To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.

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

The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.

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

We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "consciousness expansion" without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that were lying in wait for all the people who took him seriously... All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But their loss and failure is ours too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped create... a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody... or at least some force - is tending the light at the end of the tunnel.

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

Sophistry is the fallacy of argument.

There is no permanent place in this universe for evil... Evil may hide behind this fallacy and that, but it will be hunted from fallacy to fallacy until there is no more fallacy for it to hide behind.