Top 205 Fallacy Quotes & Sayings

A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.

The assumption that humans could be a reliable back up for the system was a fallacy!

The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.

Objectivity is a fallacy...there are different opinions, but you dont give them equal weight.

Until I know this sure uncertainty, I'll entertain the offered fallacy.

The assertion fallacy is the fallacy of confusing the conditions for the performance of the speech act of assertion with the analysis of the meaning of particular words occurring in certain assertions.

The Keynesian belief that 'demand' is always at the root of underemployment and slow growth is a fallacy.

It's hard bein' real in a world that's a fallacy.

A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.

People exaggerate their confidence in their plans - something we call the planning fallacy... The existence of the plan tends to induce overconfidence.

The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.

Every liberal position is built on a fallacy.

Half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult.

I'm offended by the is-ought fallacy, which has been used to justify slavery, women not being allowed to vote, children working in factories.

I've never met anyone who has said, "My goal is to make America mediocre." That's a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.

Zionism is the most stupendous fallacy in Jewish history

The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened.

I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context.

The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.

People call me fussy, but that's a fallacy.

When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy.

Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.

I am a person who recognizes the fallacy of humans.

The terrible, tragic fallacy of the last hundred years has been to think that all man's troubles are due to his environment, and that to change the man you have nothing to do but change his environment. That is a tragic fallacy. It overlooks the fact that it was in Paradise that man fell.

To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.

Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committing a god-of-the-gaps fallacy (the fallacy of using God as a stop-gap for ignorance). Yet without some restriction on the use of chance, scientists are in danger of committing a logically equivalent fallacy-one we may call the “chance-of-the-gaps fallacy.” Chance, like God, can become a stop-gap for ignorance.

To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy.

The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside

You can't recover memories of a missing event. That's a fallacy.

It is a fallacy of the old schools to divide man into parcels, elements, thoughts, emotions, intuitions, etc. All human faculties consist of an interconnected whole.

I think it's a fallacy that the harder you practice the better you get.

This whole notion that it's somehow easy and simpler to live in the country is such a fallacy.

And there's the fallacy of existence: the idea that one could be happy forever and age with a given situation or series of accomplishments.

Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case.

Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence.

We have a cultural notion that if children were not engineered, if we did not manipulate them, they would grow up as beasts in the field. This is the wildest fallacy in the world.

Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.

The question of naturalism is a fallacy, it does not exist... The photographic image replaces naturalistic experience.

It would be a fallacy to deduce that the slow writer necessarily comes up with superior work. There seems to be scant relationshipbetween prolificness and quality.

It's a fallacy that people think that today's teenagers are shallow or somehow less intelligent than in the past.

The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

I must begin with a good body of facts and not from a principle (in which I always suspect some fallacy) and then as much deduction as you please.

The general nature of the speech act fallacy can be stated as follows, using "good" as our example. Calling something good is characteristically praising or commending or recommending it, etc. But it is a fallacy to infer from this that the meaning of "good" is explained by saying it is used to perform the act of commendation.

It's a critical fallacy of our times ... that a writer should 'grow,' 'change,' or 'develop.' This fallacy causes us to expect from children or radishes: 'grow,' or there's something wrong with you. But writers are not radishes. If you look at what most writers actually do, it resembles a theme with variations more than it does the popular notion of growth.

Sophistry is the fallacy of argument.

An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe.

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

"Isn't it fun getting older?" is really a terrible fallacy. That's like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire.

Life may be miraculous in its unlikelihood in the universe, but it would be a fallacy to suggest that its rareness makes it inextinguishable.

A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.

Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy.

We cannot but think there is something like a fallacy in Mr. Buckle's theory that the advance of mankind is necessarily in the direction of science, and not in that of morals.

There is no permanent place in this universe for evil... Evil may hide behind this fallacy and that, but it will be hunted from fallacy to fallacy until there is no more fallacy for it to hide behind.

Assuming audiences to be dumb, that's a big fallacy.

There is no such thing as 'separation of church and state.' Reporters continue to promote this fallacy and scare Christians out of standing up for their beliefs.

The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.

The fallacy is that you have to hold some sort of stake in the grief or horror in order to write about it - I think the opposite is true.