Top 268 Plausible Quotes & Sayings

There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging.

I am attracted to arguments that have a certain plausible originality to them.

In Hollywood, imitation is the most profitable form of flattery. That is the only plausible explanation.

There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

Faith prefers the absurd to the plausible.

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 problem with living with miracles was that they made everything seem plausible.

...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification.

As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it.

What you need for a participatory system to work: "a plausible promise, an effective tool, and an acceptable bargain."

A big lie is more plausible than truth.

The hallmark of good science is the testing of a plausible hypothesis that is then either supported or rejected by the evidence.

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.

Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine. . .and then make them plausible.

Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!

Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing.

It is not plausible for Patrick Kennedy to do something to get the FBI to change the State Department investigation, this is crazy.

All sacrifices of common sense, and all recourse to plausible political combinations, whether of individuals or of men, are uniformly made at the expense of the majority.

Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction

I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon.

Jim Stavridis is the former NATO commander who is sometimes on people's lists, also very plausible, self-possessed, someone with sobriety.

The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage

the true and the plausible are rarely the same.

The important thing is that we maintain plausible deniability.

We certainly have to have a view about knowledge in order to decide whether some version of foreknowledge is necessary for inquiry or whether some philosopher or other thinks it is. Roughly, the more demanding our conception of knowledge is, the less plausible foreknowledge is; the weaker our conception of knowledge is, the more plausible foreknowledge is.

If I would need to make a prediction I still believe Kaplan's scenario is very plausible.

What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible.

For something like 'Line of Duty' to work, it has to be both plausible and unexpected.

Behavioral economics offers a plausible explanation for overreactions by the market. For example, a long period of bad performance can lead to stereotyping.

In terms of magnifying it and making it plausible, I'm a great believer in truth in comedy.

It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.

Those who can envision a plausible future that's brighter than today will earn the opportunity to lead.

The Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning.

The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.

The stultifying effect of the movies is not that the children see them but that their parents do, as if Hollywood provided a plausible adult recreation to grow up into.

There is no plausible theory under which the record of the Pentagon Papers can be interpreted as relating to the national defense.

I think it's totally possible and plausible that racial balkanization is a recurring aspect of the nature of human politics.

Growing up the way I did, being an actor in Hollywood was definitely never a plausible career choice at all.

The really smart conspiracies are the ones that explain, 'This is why this is plausible,' not, 'This is what happened.' If it makes sense and if it's possible, I'd investigate it.

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 latest indication we have is that Amado is experiencing some delay in getting his visa. We understand that and we can accept that as a plausible reason for him not to be here.

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.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.

The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage.

People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible

We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions.

When it comes to the Russia investigation, President Trump would be wise to review Scandal 101: Plausible deniability is your friend.

What makes 'The Handmaid's Tale' so terrifying is that everything that happens in it is plausible.

It is quite plausible that the process of increased fragmentation of production across borders is subject to 'diminishing returns' and has its natural limits.

Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.

I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life.

A plausible rumor / Seems a lot more believable / Than the truth itself.

The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory.

I lived, particularly in childhood but with lessening intensity right on to middle age, in a world that was peculiarly and intimately my own, scarcely to be shared with others or even made plausible to them. I habitually read special meanings into things, scenes and places qualities of wonder, beauty, promise, or horror for which there was no external evidence visible or plausible to others. My world was peopled with mysteries, seductive hints, vague menaces, "intimations of immortality.

Every plausible policy must be followed by the question 'And then what?'

Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony.