Plausible Quotes

129 quotes by 116 authors

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. — Francis Bacon
Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and… — Francis Bacon
Now '90210' is returning with an all-new cast of slightly more plausible teens. I'll be honest: I wish the old cast was back. Ideally, this… — Diablo Cody
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and… — Lewis H. Lapham
After we have thought out everything carefully in advance and have sought and found without prejudice the most plausible plan, we must not be ready… — Carl von Clausewitz
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions… — William Hazlitt
I shall give a propagandist reason for starting the war, no matter whether it is plausible or not. The victor will not be asked afterwards… — Adolf Hitler
What could be more foolish than to base one's entire view of life on ideas that, however plausible at the time, now appear to be… — Francis Crick
Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are… — Mark Twain
Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical. — Joey Skaggs
As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false… — Hannah Arendt
Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness… — Charles Dickens
. . . the upsurge of Spirit is the only plausible way to stop the ecological destruction of our planet. Even people who have no… — Michael Lerner
As agonizing a disease as cancer is, I do not think it can be said that our civilization is threatened by it. ... But a… — Carl Sagan
I mean come on. Do you know how easy it is to be famous these days? Do you have any idea? The web has made… — Corey Taylor
The doctrine of transmigrationÂ… was a means of constructing a plausible vindication of the ways of the cosmos to man; Â… none but very hasty… — Thomas Huxley
Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less plausible but entirely arbitrary… — Wassily Leontief
We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions. — Wassily Leontief
It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their truths. It is… — Henry Hazlitt
What could me more plausible than a line of reasoning which argues that the explanation of the origin of a system was to achieve an… — Immanuel Wallerstein

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