Plausible Quotes
Plausible Quote of the day
My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so.
I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is.
The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory.
Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.
Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible.
There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.
Hitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination.
The real news has gotten more surreal and absurd, and my fake news, if you want to call it that, has gotten more plausible. And at some point, those two trend lines crossed.
We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions.
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 of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.
Atheist’s denial of God’s existence needs just as much substantiation as does the theist’s claim; the atheist must give plausible reasons for rejecting God’s existence.
To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation - is there a worst trade one makes in life?
I suspect that a lot of the stress we see around us arises from the cognitive dissonance set up by one side of the brain hearing very plausible spin while the other side knows it just ain't so.
Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.
Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing.
The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.
It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.
The result of the mathematician's creative work is demonstrative reasoning, a proof; but the proof is discovered by plausible reasoning, by guessing.
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.
It's easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It's harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it better.
Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine. . .and then make them plausible.
I have never believed that there is a secret United Nations plot to take over the US... But, for the first time in my life, I think the formation of some sort of world government is plausible.
If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.
Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
The more we refine our understanding of God to make the concept plausible, the more it seems pointless.
When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.
The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging.
Jim Stavridis is the former NATO commander who is sometimes on people's lists, also very plausible, self-possessed, someone with sobriety.
If you're reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his mom's basement, on text, it looks like it's equally plausible.
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader's imagination will reject it.
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 end that has in fact been achieved?
...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification.
The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.
Those who can envision a plausible future that's brighter than today will earn the opportunity to lead.
The hallmark of good science is the testing of a plausible hypothesis that is then either supported or rejected by the evidence.
The Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning.
In Hollywood, imitation is the most profitable form of flattery. That is the only plausible explanation.
I loved Molly. Or at least I told myself I did. Or, if what I felt for her was not love, it was at least a plausible imitation, a convincing substitute.