(16 quotes found)
“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
“An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy”
Benjamin Stolberg
“Don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures”
Sydney Smith
“Grow a thick skin - a very thick skin. And watch your back. For every back, there is a knife.”
Lily Chatterjee
“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
“It's a fallacy that the president only wants to hear from you if you agree,”
Christine Todd Whitman
“Research has a dirty name, ... because people think you can't research art. One of the common fallacies is if a song doesn't research well, it won't get on, but it doesn't happen like that. We put the song on, play them for a while, and when people know them enough, we seek opinions.”
Dan Bradley
