Office tends to confer a dreadful plausibility on even the most negligible of those who hold it. — Mark Lawson Copy Share Image
“Holding me, as it were, within the infinite hope of your plausibility.” — Peter Davis Copy Share Image
“That's the worst aspect of being a writer: managing plausibility.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Paradoxes are less paradoxical in their reference to truth than most of the most plausible axioms. — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
“Know how to rank your beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“He had a suspicion of plausible answers; they were so often wrong.” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“On Writing: "A multitude of improbabilities can be forgiven as long as enough plausibility has been established.” — Danielle Ackley-McPhail Copy Share Image
PROOF, n. Evidence having a shade more of plausibility than of unlikelihood. The testimony of two credible witnesses as opposed to that… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If you take anything that succeeded, just imagine it succeeding 10 years before or 10 years after, you could almost always make,… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
We humans seem to be extremely good at generating ideas, theories, and explanations that have the ring of plausibility. We may be… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
There is thus a certain plausibility to Nietzsche's doctrine, though it is dynamite. He maintains in effect that the gulf separating Plato… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
“Objective truth is difficult to come by, and even if you have it, what you can pass on to the next person… — Daniel Abraham Copy Share Image
My friends and I have often discussed the plausibility of a connection between qualitatively bad music and quantifiably successful music, often citing… — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
In any kind of comic scene you're going to perhaps push the boundaries of plausibility but as long as there is some… — Rafe Spall Copy Share Image
“When a hypothesis enters a scientist's mind, he checks it by calculation and experiment, that is, by the mimicry and the pantomime… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“But our relationship to these infinite pasts and futures isn’t random—plausibility throws its weight around, per some freaky quantum mechanics stuff that… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
The fictioneer labors under the constraint of plausibility; his inventions must stay within the capacity of the audience to accept and believe.… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
“ I would like to focus on the use of the word silly for a particular people’s point of views. Everybody has… — Randal Rauser Copy Share Image
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is a large part of the academic profession: to make up complex, subtle arguments that are childishly ridiculous but are enveloped… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is a secret from nobody that the famous random event is most likely to arise from those parts of the world… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Facts and values are entangled in science. It's not because scientists are biased, not because they are partial or influenced by other… — Alva Noë Copy Share Image
