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Letter "F" » fallacies
«The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction»
«The first step to wisdom is to avoid the common fallacy which considers everything profound that is obscure»
«The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and the books. They are useful public servants, who manage libraries in the interest of the public . . . Many still think that a great reader, or a writer of books, will make an excellent librarian. This is pure fallacy.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
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«The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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detection, disturb, dread, fallacies, operations, quickened, quickening, quickens, The Quickening, vigorous
«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: in conversation we nat»
«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»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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«There is no permanent place in [this universe] for evil... Evil may hide behind this fallacy and that, but it will be hunted from fallacy to fallacy until there is no more fallacy for it to hide behind.»
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