“ Destroy his fib, or sophistry — in vain! The creature's at his dirty work again. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions. ”
- G. K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins. ”
- Paul Brown- Copy
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“ Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance. ”
- Edwin Way Teale- Copy
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“ One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation. ”
- Thomas Brackett Reed- Copy
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“ The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes. ”
- Arthur Miller- Copy
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“ The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion. ”
- Derek Jarman- Copy
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“ Where there is much freedom there is much error. ”
- Johann Friedrich von Schiller- Copy
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“ Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion. ”
- Robert Burton- Copy
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“ Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error. ”
- James Harvey Robinson- Copy
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“ The most ominous of fallacies: the belief that things can be kept static by inaction. ”
- Freya Madeline Stark- Copy
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“ Any proposition containing the word "is" creates a linguistical structural confusion which will eventually give birth to serious fallacies. ”
- Alfred Korzybski- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician. ”
- Sidney J. Harris- Copy
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“ An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy. ”
- Steven Weinberg- Copy
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“ Science is simply common sense at its best — that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. ”
- Thomas H. Huxley- Copy
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“ The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
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“ Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. ”
- Sheila Ballantyne- Copy
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“ All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
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