A Quote by Vik Muniz

Illusions as bad as mine make people aware of the fallacies of visual information and the pleasure to be derived from such fallacies.

Vik Muniz

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Aware Bad Derived Illusions Information Make Mine People Pleasure Visual

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Vik Muniz
Brazilian - Artist
Born: December 20, 1961

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It begins with skepticism. The history of human folly, and our own susceptibility to illusions and fallacies, tell us that men and women are fallible.

Steven Pinker

Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics.

Steven Pinker

We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure.

Samuel Johnson

Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.

Christian Nestell Bovee

One of the terrible fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy is that if people would just say how they felt, a lot of problems could be solved.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

There's more to logic than identifying logical fallacies.

Criss Jami

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

Ayn Rand

The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.