“An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy”
Benjamin Stolberg
“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
“The first step to wisdom is to avoid the common fallacy which considers everything profound that is obscure”
Gregory Nunn
“I suggest that the anthropomorphic god-idea is not a harmless infirmity of human thought, but a very noxious fallacy, which is largely responsible for the calamities the world is at present enduring”
William Archer
“The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.”
Edward Gibbon
“Don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures”
Sydney Smith
“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.”
Bruce Leichtman
