Flawed Assumptions Quotes

At its fundamentally flawed core, the aim of almost any learning program is to help us become who we are not.

But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.

These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a good deed is its own rewards; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness

Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.

Over the years, a number of very smart people have learned the hard way that a long string of impressive numbers multiplied by a single zero always equals zero.

One phrase I would dearly like to consign to the can is 'Out of the Box.' The thinking that told us we should invade Iraq and that house prices never decline may have been out of the box, but it put us into the ditch. We have been badly misled by people who persuaded us that they understood things we didn't.

To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.

The plan of "counting the chickens before they are hatched" is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age.

If my house has collapsed at one blow, that is because it was a house of cards. The faith which 'took these things into account' was not faith but imagination.