The divergent series are the invention of the devil, and it is a shame to base on them any demonstration whatsoever. By using them, one may draw any conclusion he pleases and that is why these series have produced so many fallacies and so many paradoxes.
Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time.
Democracy is grounded upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even halfwits would argue it to pieces. Its first concern must be to penalize the free play of ideas.
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
As the science of economics. . . exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.
Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its own sophisms, and keep it on guard against the fallacies which it practices on others
Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man
We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure.
Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning.
Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins.
The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
