Falacy Quotes & Sayings

We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent - or they themselves - was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible. — Jean Genet

The federal government abhorred a vacuum, especially one located within easy driving distance. — K.B. Spangler

Yet neither are those innocent who lay the bait in their way; that the opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency is a dangerous falacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty, because he being of course judge of that tendency will make his opinions the rule of judgment, and approve or condemn the sentiments of others only as they shall square with or differ from his own; that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order; — Thomas Jefferson

I read, watch television, watch movies, hang out with family. I like my clothes and I have great cars, and I drive those. But for most people, it's like, "That's boring. You don't club? You don't party?" — Samuel L. Jackson

We like stories, we like to summarize, and we like to simplify, i.e., to reduce the dimensions of matters ... the narrative fallacy is associated with our vulnerability to overinterpretation and our mental representation of the world ... fallacy addresses our limited ability to look at sequences of facts without weaving an explanation into them, or ... forcing a logical link ... explanations bind facts together. They make them more easily remembered; they help them make more sense. Where this propensity can go wrong is when it increases our impression of understanding. — Nassim Taleb

Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeling be? — Alfred Lord Tennyson

[T]hat the opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency is a dangerous falacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty. — Thomas Jefferson

Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results. — Brandon Sanderson

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I would like to have a bit of a break and do a comedy. — Ridley Scott

You build a tower then you also build the chance it will fall. To think of life as a foolproof is a falacy of fools, he thought. Things happen, he believed, and there's nothing you can do to keep them from occuring. — Marianne Wiggins

People cling all to an idea precisely because the reality is so different. The myth of equal opportunity is more attractive, more beautiful, more something people want to hold on, the more they know it's slipping away. — Richard Wolff