Primo Levi

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.

Italian Scientist

Robert Winston

I think it's important for scientists to be a bit less arrogant, a bit more humble, recognising we are capable of making mistakes and being fallacious - which is increasingly serious in a society where our work may have unpredictable consequences.

British Scientist

Zadie Smith

The conflation of the simple in style with the morally prescriptive in character, and the complex in style with the amoral or anarchic in character, seems to me one of the most persistently fallacious beliefs held by English students.

British Novelist

H. P. Lovecraft

The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.

American Novelist

The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.

Gary Chapman

That is the idea that good Christians don't talk about sex, at least not out loud, and certainly not in the church. I want to say that both of those ideas are fallacious.

American Author

Stokely Carmichael

Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.

American Activist

Hypatia

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

Greek Philosopher

John Chrysostom

Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.

Clergyman

Edward Gibbon

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.

English Historian

Use 'fallacious' to question the validity of an argument or information.

Critical Thinking

'Fallacious' doesn't always imply someone is deliberately deceiving; it can be an honest mistake.

Not Always Intentional

'Fallacious' is often used in educational settings to critique logic or evidence.

Academic Context

 no one had heard of it. Look at it now. With an inspirational leader, I think this year, the opening of the tallest tower in the world is like adding a finger to that hand, that points at all those who spread fallacious stories about us.

Jamil Abu-Wardeh: The...

 crazy initially the procedure called for a doctor to massage the clitoris to the point of orgasm thereby relieving the built-up pressure thought to cause hysteria it was not considered fallacious in any waves considered