#plausible

If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative. ↗

— Charles Edward Merriam

#doing #done #given #imperative #invent

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 proper virtue. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#advised #all things #confident #integrity #judges

Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#attitude #dogmas #evidence #find #insists

The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information. ↗

— Norbert Wiener

#barrels #changing #claim #depreciation #existing

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

— Antonia Fraser

#antoinette #fullest #i #i think #life

It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#atonement #beach #bit #dirty #get

As the Republican nominee, it was Romney's job to find a way to speak to some of those groups of voters and offer practical solutions to their difficulties that both resonated with them and sounded plausible to them. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#difficulties #find #groups #job #nominee

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#another #anything #been #cannot #conceive

Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously. ↗

— John Conyers

#far #far right #fringe #hard #ideas

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible. ↗

— Alan Watts

#difficulty #god #idea #implausible #incredible