Plausibility Quotes

12 quotes by 11 authors

I think the fault is more with historicists who have stubbornly failed to develop a good theory of historicity. By simply resting on the feeble… — Earl Doherty
Plausibility is a trap for the truth laid by lies. — Yvan Audouard
I can not but hate the prospect of slavery's expansion. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because… — Abraham Lincoln
The word soul has lost its meaning and even its plausibility.... Faith, hope and love can no longer be seen simply as virtues or graces;… — Paul Pruyser
PROOF, n. Evidence having a shade more of plausibility than of unlikelihood. The testimony of two credible witnesses as opposed to that of only one. — Ambrose Bierce
Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave; plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then — James Russell Lowell
After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become… — Richard Russo
Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and… — Erich Fromm
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all — Nikolai Gogol
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you so, it is… — Margaret Fuller
Office tends to confer a dreadful plausibility on even the most negligible of those who hold it. — Mark Lawson

Who Wrote These Plausibility Quotes

11 authors contributed a total of 12 Plausibility Quotes as follows: