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• There is a fallacy that the powerful emotion of youth mellows with time. Not true. One learns to control and suppress it. But it doesn't lessen. It simply hides and concentrates itself in more discreet places. When one accidentally stumbles into one of these abysses, the pain is spectacular.

  Nicole Krauss

  Pain, Powerful, Emotion

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.55, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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

  People, Problem, Terrible

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.235, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Simple perception then is a fallacy. Besides the conscious prejudices that we are aware of imposing on the world, there are a thousand subconscious prejudices that we assume to be actuality.

  Colin Wilson

  Simple, Perception, World

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• There is a popular fallacy that falling down is the mark of a poor skater. But the truth is that when one stops falling, he has probably stopped improving.

  Dick Button

  Fall, Truth Is, Poor

  Dick Button (1955). “Dick Button on Skates”

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• 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.

  Fannie Hurst

  Quality, Would Be, Come Up

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• Money makes people rich; it is a fallacy to think it makes them better, or even that it makes them worse. People are what they do, and what they leave behind.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, People, Rich

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “Dodger”, p.202, Random House

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• The capacity for loving strangers, whether one thinks of them as fictional beings or stars one will never meet, is a profound reflection on the new consciousness whereby every individual leads his or life while aware of all the billions of other people on Earth. Perhaps it is a fantasy or a fallacy that we can feel for so many strangers. Perhaps it is a mask for selfishness. But no matter the modern stress on special effects, there isn't a sight in movies as momentous as shots of a face as its mind is being changed. And only movies have allowed that.

  Edward Jay Epstein

  Stars, Stress, Thinking

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• La psicología cognitiva nos dice que la mente humana sin ayuda es vulnerable a muchas falacias e ilusiones debido a que confía más en su memoria para las anécdotas vívidas que en las estadísticas sistemáticas.

  Steven Pinker

  Recuerdos, Psicología, Mente

  "Steven Pinker: charla combativa del profeta de la paz". Entrevista con John Naughton, www.theguardian.com. 15 de octubre de 2011.

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

  Meyhem Lauren

  Real, Rap, Hip Hop

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• Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords with Scripture; they do not search for facts as such, but for facts that will bear out their doctrine. It is easy to see that this mental habit blunts not only the perception of truth, but the sense of truthfulness, and that the man whose faith drives him into fallacies treads close upon the precipice of falsehood.

  George Eliot

  Men, Perception, Mind

  George Eliot (2016). “The Essays of George Eliot: Top Novelist Focus”, p.45, 谷月社

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• There's more to logic than identifying logical fallacies.

  Criss Jami

  Logic, Identifying, Logical

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.21, Criss Jami

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• Una de las falacias más persistentes sobre la Iglesia cristiana es que mantuvo vivo el saber durante la Edad Media y el Oscurantismo. Lo que hizo la Iglesia fue mantener vivo el saber en los monasterios, al tiempo que impedía la difusión del conocimiento fuera de ellos... Sin embargo, incluso a principios del siglo XIX, nueve décimas partes de la Europa cristiana eran analfabetas.

  Margaret E. Knight

  Cristiano, Oscuro, Europa

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• I think it's a fallacy that only people in elected office can come up with solutions that solve our problems. I just think maybe there's a different paradigm.

  Benjamin Carson

  Thinking, People, Office

  Fuente: www.wbur.org

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• When science shall have effectually demonstrated to us the origin of matter, and proved the fallacy of the occultists and old philosophers who held (as their descendants now hold) that matter is but one of the correlations of spirit, then will the world of skeptics have a right to reject the old Wisdom, or throw the charge of obscenity in the teeth of the old religions.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Teeth, World, Matter

  H. P. Blavatsky (1994). “Isis Unveiled: (Two Volumes in a Slipcase)”, p.583, Quest Books

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• Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins.

  H. L. Mencken

  Friendship, Belief, Common

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.616, Vintage

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• It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Discipline, Materialism, Old Fashioned

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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• If we carry this line of argument to its logical conclusion, the meaning of life consists of the flaws in one's conceptions and what one does about them. Life can be seen as a fertile fallacy.

  George Soros

  Meaning Of Life, Doe, Investing

  George Soros (1994). “The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market”, p.363, John Wiley & Sons

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• A todos nos impulsan los mismos motivos, a todos nos engañan las mismas falacias, a todos nos anima la esperanza, nos obstruye el peligro, nos enreda el deseo y nos seduce el placer.

  Samuel Johnson

  Humanity, Desire, Pleasure

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.183, Univ of California Press

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• As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Liberty, Economics, Brands

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• There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another ... All human experience teaches that methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.

  Emma Goldman

  Mean, Liberty, Purpose

  Emma Goldman (2003). “My Disillusionment in Russia”, p.260, Courier Corporation

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• The popular notion that an increase in the stock of money is socially and economically beneficial and desirable is one of the great fallacies of our time.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Increase, Notion, Beneficial

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• A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional objectivity. It would be more nearly true to say that it is based upon wonder, adventure and hope.

  Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

  Adventure, Science, Emotional

  "Chemistry in Britain". Quoted in E.J. Bowen's obituary of Hinshelwood, "Chemistry in Britain", Vol. 3, 536, 1967.

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• I think personal diplomacy has caused a lot of mischief and harm, and has impeded the progress of peace in the world. It leads to a very great fallacy - the almost pathetic belief of some Foreign Ministers - that, if they had lunch with someone and called him by his Christian name, they have changed the fundamental facts of relationship between nations.

  Paul Hasluck

  Liderazgo, Cristiano, Pensamiento

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• In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in economics, evolutionary biology, probability and statistics - unfortunately most High School and College curricula have barely changed since Medieval times!

  Steven Pinker

  School, College, Intuition

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• Some of the most serious fallacies of traditional economics have been due to confusion between optimum and equilibrium conditions; the apparent influence of Dr. Pangloss upon the development of economic thought is for the most part nothing but pure intellectual error.

  Sir John Richard Hicks

  Errors, Confusion, Intellectual

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