Challenging Fallacies & Quotes

Challenging Fallacies & Quotes By Dr. Sohail Ansari

Conceived and worded by DR Sohail Ansari (originality of concepts and originality of words).

He believes that there can never be a zero scope for improvement and appreciates criticism if it is not for the sake of criticism. 

Challenging fallacies

·       All foreign qualified administrators are good. If one is good then he must be foreign qualified and if not, then must not be so.

·       Only fool can believe in old axiom: ‘If people ever discover difficulties task entails they will never launch themselves on it’ because people despite difficulties launch themselves on tasks.

·       If this scholarship is for students those have passed grade 9 then students of grade 11 are eligible.   

·       First position can not be given to a boy as he has obtained below 80%; and first position has always gone before for above 80%.

·       Law states that male (member of) faculty must teach this subject; but court rules that college A does not violate the law despite female (member of) faculty (of college A ) teach this subject.

·       As dismissal without reason is illegal; therefore, every legal dismissal is justified.

Quotable Quotes from ‘E’

Effectiveness

·        If effectiveness of anything depends on how it is used, not if it is used, then thing is neither good nor bad in itself, or on if it is used, not how it is used, then thing is either good or bad in itself.

Empty promises

·        Empty promise takes one to water and brings him back thirsty.

End

·        If success in examinations is an end in itself then end justifies means and if examinations are means to an end then means justify end.

·        When degree becomes an end in itself, people have selective information.

Ethnic leader

·        Ethnic leader needs enemy to thrive and must create one if he is a friend of himself in case he finds none.

Excellence

·        If excellence is departure from usual then disciplined approach can produce things in an excellent way but can never produce excellent things. 

Experience

·        If ‘experience is what you get when you do not get what you want’ then you can get what you want if you do not get same experience again.

Extent of love

·        Period one takes to recover from the shock of some one’s departure is the extent of his love.

Emotional intelligence

·        Emotional intelligence is not only appropriateness of emotions but also appropriateness of their expressions.

Error

·        Digging in error is due to not owning error.

Ethical act

·        Ethical act is not doing what is legally permissible if it does not feel right.

Examination

·        Examinations are exercise in futility if students are judged from what they know not from what they should.

Evil

·        Every evil can be justified; one just needs to understand it according to perpetrator’s definition.  

Evil and evil genius

·        If you are embodiment of everything that is wrong in the World you are evil, and if you are inspirational for everyone for becoming embodiment of evil then you are evil genius.  

Era

·        New era can only be born when buoys those have marked so far the channels of our lives have been swept away.

Excuse

·        Excuse is saying no without saying so.

Exclusive

·        Reading an exclusive interview is often just like visiting an exclusive restaurant and finding that it is similar to all restaurants but has one different dish.