Human Fallacy Quotes

#1. ...you'd be surprised at how much of human fallacy comes from the inability to read each other. In other words, we're always reading in people what we want to see. Some of us want everyone to love us, some of us think that everyone hates us (and thus this gives us a valid reason to hate them).

Karina Halle

#2. It is a fallacy of the old schools to divide man into parcels, elements, thoughts, emotions, intuitions, etc. All human faculties consist of an interconnected whole.

Alfred Korzybski

#3. Mechanism as a philosophic doctrine might be defined as the belief that the last machine which human ingenuity has created gives us the final form of reality.

William Barrett

#4. Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence.

Lewis Mumford

#5. There's a horrible fallacy that exists in the popular discussion of fiction these days: the idea that a successful central character need be 'likeable' or 'sympathetic'. It is surely more important that they be human, no? More crucial that they breathe?

Andrew O'Hagan

#6. Our entire economy is based on productivity measures that have little to do with "human input". Sooner or later the entire system will collapse revealing the fallacy of an economy based on finance.

Said Elias Dawlabani

#7. Where the heck is Nick?" she asks. Just hearing Abby say Nick's name makes Leah suck in her lips. "Feeling up a guitar somewhere?" I suggest. "Yeah," says Leah. "Most awkward way ever to get a splinter.

Becky Albertalli

#8. My problem is that I do not get along with lesbians at all. They don't like me, and I don't like them.

Camille Paglia

#9. All the fallacies of human reason had to be exhausted, before the light of a high truth could meet with ready acceptance.

Max Muller

#10. An honest book is almost as good as a friend.

Robert Charles Wilson

#11. I always tried to do the best. I knew I couldn't always be the best, but I tried to be.

Frank Robinson

#12. Imagination is the elixir of life. Slurp often, I do.

Kristal Hollis

#13. In every argument there is a discovery of truth and a bed of success.

Auliq Ice

#14. Zoocentrism is the primary fallacy of human sociobiology, for this view of human behavior rests on the argument that if the actions of "lower" animals with simple nervous systems arise as genetic products of natural selection, then human behavior should have a similar basis.

Stephen Jay Gould

#15. Seward would inspire a cow with statesmanship if she understood our language.

Henry Adams

#16. We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.

Margaret Mead

#17. We don't consider manual work as a curse, or a bitter necessity, not even as a means of making a living. We consider it as a high human function, as the basis of human life, the most dignified thing in the life of the human being, and which ought to be free, creative. Men ought to be proud of it.

David Ben-Gurion

#18. As a book author, it's your responsibility to cast a vision for your book about the length and appearance before you pitch the idea to a publisher.

W. Terry Whalin

#19. If one is a professional soldier, it is part of one's job to die sooner or later.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#20. If we just planned for everything we could, we'd make it through everything we couldn't.

Kiera Cass

#21. Trying to think inside Finn's head was like committing what our English master called Pathetic Fallacy, the attribution of human emotions to boulders or trees.

Meg Rosoff

#22. It is a fundamental fallacy to think that our human bodies work like the structures that humans have built.

Leslie Kaminoff