“The fallacy in the commonwealth's position is that each workday is 7.5 hours and that when that is over, the workday stops.”
Peter Ostermiller
“That's one of the fallacies at the end of the selection process, when you hear people say (the committee) didn't know. Believe me, there's nothing those people don't know. They know the first time you wear retro jerseys.”
Craig Thompson
“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
“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
“Don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures”
Sydney Smith
