Etymological Fallacy Quotes & Sayings

The child's true constructive energy, a dynamic power, has remained unnoticed for thousands of years. Just as men have trodden the earth, and later tilled its surface, without thought for the immense wealth hidden in its depths, so the men of our day make progress after progress in civilized life, without noticing the treasures that lie hidden in the psychic world of infancy. — Maria Montessori

Yet in reality, the likelihood of reaching the pinnacle of capitalist society today is only marginally better than were the chances of being accepted into the French nobility four centuries ago, though at least an aristocratic age was franker, and therefore kinder, about the odds. It did not relentlessly play up the possibilities open to all those with a take on the future of the potato crisp, and so, in turn, did not cruelly equate an ordinary life with a failed one.
Our era is perverse in passing off an exception as a rule. — Alain De Botton

My little nymph's laughter filled my soul. — Katie McGarry

Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway. — Albert Einstein

When you improve your product so it does the customer's job better, then you gain market share. — Clayton Christensen

Caleb leaned forward in his seat. "So who's the meanest person you've ever arrested?"
"What are you doing?" Nick gasped.
Caleb cracked an evil grin. "You have things you can't resist doing. This is one that is a moral imperative to me." *Must rankle bullies.*
*You're going to get jack-slapped.* — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The summary of the advice of all prophets is this;
Find yourself a mirror. — Shams Tabrizi

She told herself that she was happy to meet her executioner. — Sarah MacLean

The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win. — Leonid Brezhnev

We need to take a less narrow look at our children's problems and, instead, see them as windows of opportunity - a way of exploring and understanding all facets of our children's development. If we can understand the underlying developmental process, we can see a child's struggles as signs of striving toward growth instead of chronic problems or attempts to aggravate adults. — Stanley Greenspan

I'll burn the world down to save her. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

You cannot do anything, except your will agrees with the will of the Lord — Sunday Adelaja

So they had all had more troubles than she. Did that really make them superior? If two men were walking along the street and a brick fell on one, missing the other, did that make the injured one a better person? — Elizabeth Harrower

English bond is a style in which one row is made up entirely of stretchers (the long side of bricks) and the next is made only of headers (the end side). — Bill Bryson