George A. Moore Quotes

A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.

No one who lives in error is free.

It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.

… fear false knowledge

Sometimes we misinterpret, sometimes we misunderstand, sometimes we make mistakes.

The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.

Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.

You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.

An error becomes an error when born as truth.

Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.

people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.

The leaders of the people cause them to err.

The great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.

So young and so wrong.

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe.

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

The biggest mistake that I have made in my life is choosing Najib.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Most of what we know or assume to know is wrong one way or another.

Assuming audiences to be dumb, that's a big fallacy.

I like illusion when it is so convincing that we might as well see reality this way - I like to present to our belief system something that is convincing, that 'we know not to be.'