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

A plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive, at least a little bit ... — Kurt Vonnegut

The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction. — Tom Wolfe

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

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. — Ralph Merkle

The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change. — Nancy Pearcey

If it be not destiny, then surely there is plausible deniability, which in the parlance of politics is the same thing. — Christopher Moore

Every object and event must have a plausible chain of causality that leads to it. — S.F. Chapman

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

I'm focused on solving the problem that would make it plausible for gov't to get back to solving real problems. — Lawrence Lessig

Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong. — H.L. Mencken

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

In all ages of the world this eminently plausible fiction has lured the obtuse infant to financial ruin and disaster. — Mark Twain

To construct plausible and moving 'other worlds' you must draw upon the only real 'other world' we know, that of the spirit. — C.S. Lewis

Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference. — Elliott Colla

Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction — David Mitchell

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

Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities. — Miriam Allen De Ford

Plausible that a professional pitcher with some time to practice could throw a golf ball faster than a baseball. — Randall Munroe

The result of the mathematician's creative work is demonstrative reasoning, a proof, but the proof is discovered by plausible reasoning, by GUESSING. — George Polya

The paperless society is about as
plausible as the paperless bathroom. — Jesse Shera

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. — Stanley Schmidt

Woe to the leader whose arguments at the end of a war are not as plausible as they were at the beginning. — Otto Von Bismarck

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

Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible. — Richard Posner

Criticism is prejudice made plausible. — H.L. Mencken

To fix and make plausible, the nebulous emotions of my costumed heroins, like diamonds on a sea of dough. — Margaret Atwood

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

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

A big lie is more plausible than truth. — Ernest Hemingway,

The important thing is that we maintain plausible deniability. — Richard M. Nixon

The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists. — Jorge Luis Borges

Indeed a lie is often more plausible than the truth. "Almost" always. The truth, of course, is never very plausible. — Fyodor Sologub

The cunning old cow, thought Melena. She is trying that rarest of strategies, telling the truth, and making it sound plausible. — Gregory Maguire

I'm hoping I can evade a type and go for roles based on what I consider plausible and what I consider good. — Allison Tolman

It must be said, some success. For instance, he had spent those fifteen years pretending to be an out-of-work actor, which was plausible enough. — Douglas Adams

Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough
as most wrong theories are! — H.G.Wells

It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning. — H.G.Wells

To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation - is there a worst trade one makes in life? — Robert Breault

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

Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible. — Rod Serling

When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people. — Joey Skaggs

Faith prefers the absurd to the plausible. — Mason Cooley

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

Hitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination. — Alan Bullock

Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? — Julian Barnes

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

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

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

Paradoxes are less paradoxical in their reference to truth than most of the most plausible axioms. — Raheel Farooq

The true and the plausible are rarely the same. — Helen McCloy

Cain - and the password, "Indemnity." Given how rapidly management changed at the Beacon-Light, it was entirely plausible that this familiar — Laura Lippman

That technology has canceled geography contains just enough merit to be called a plausible fallacy, — Robert D. Kaplan

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

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

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

He begged hard, and said he couldn't play - a plausible excuse, but too thin; there wasn't a musician in the country that could. — Mark Twain

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

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

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

Maybe she'd just say she ran into a door; that seemed infinitely more plausible than the truth. — Kimberly Derting

The more we refine our understanding of God to make the concept plausible, the more it seems pointless. — Steven Weinberg

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

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

Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen. — Harry Turtledove

Can any plausible excuse be furnished for the crime of creating the human race? — Mark Twain

To isolate life from danger is a mission impossible! To take precautions against the dangers, that is the necessary and plausible mission! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Looking back to data, we can see if the consequences are plausible; looking forward to theory, we can see if general principles are suggested. — John Henry Holland

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

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

To quote an early mentor," I tell the kid, " 'A journalist needs ratlike cunning, a plausible manner, and a little literary ability. — David Mitchell

The problem with living with miracles was that they made everything seem plausible. — James S.A. Corey

Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter. — Henry David Thoreau

Really good liars always work in something true to make the lie more plausible. - John Puller — David Baldacci

The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage. — Edward Bond

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 impossible — Mark Twain

Only God can tell a truly plausible lie. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

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

The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers. — William Hazlitt

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

There's almost always a plausible rationale - and a good, if misguided, intention - behind every usability flaw. Another — Steve Krug

He had a suspicion of plausible answers; they were so often wrong. — Arthur C. Clarke

When the sun comes up, Justineau is silently amazed. It seemed entirely plausible that this ontological impasse would go on for ever. Through — M.R. Carey