Quotes on the topic: Fallacy


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


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


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


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


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


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.


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


A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy.


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


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


See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.