#plausible

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

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

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

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

— David Korten

#i #make #need #plausible #prediction

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

— Amy Clampitt

#doing #men #most #plausible #some

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

Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#country #credible #done #fantastic #folk

Criticism is prejudice made plausible. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#made #plausible #prejudice

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

— H. L. Mencken

#easy #every #neat #plausible #problem

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