Top 17 Post Hoc Quotes
#1. If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness.
Jonathan Haidt
#2. To be less dumb, remember your propensity for post hoc postulation and the power positive permutations of the placebo effect have to pollute your perspicacity.
David McRaney
#3. It's a huge step forward to realize that the worst thing to happen is never the event, but the event and losing your head. Because then you'll have two problems (one of them unnecessary and post hoc). The
Ryan Holiday
#4. Think of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.' It is equally intoxicating for children and adults. All this 'crossover' talk is something publishers are using as a selling device - a kind of post hoc rationalisation of what was happening already.
Kevin Crossley-Holland
#5. Theology is the post hoc rationalization of what you want to believe.
Jerry A. Coyne
#6. Zen doesn't believe in the reconciliation of opposites because from the point of view of Zen, there is no point of view.
Frederick Lenz
#7. That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.
Iain Duncan Smith
#9. Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man
Hesiod
#10. It was such a pleasure to work with Eugene Levy. What a treat. That's a guy I grew up watching as a kid. Guys like that, they were hilarious and didn't have to be super vile or X-rated.
Harland Williams
#11. I pay attention to how I look but I don't let it go too far.
Colbie Caillat
#12. To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.
Sidney Poitier
#13. As far as politically how country music goes, it's true that it's regarded from a distance as a genre of music that at different times, the more right elements of the political spectrum have claimed for their own.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
#15. Should Hillary Clinton run for president, voters who ignore the difference between the image she seeks to project and the reality will have only themselves to blame if her presidency turns into a disaster.
Ronald Kessler
#16. Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development. I assume they're either homages or satiric riffs, and are not intended to be taken too seriously as works in their own right. Otherwise I should be talking to a copyright lawyer.
Bill Watterson
#17. When you're nearing 35, going, 'Hey Dad, I can't make these payments,' just isn't cool.
Eleanor Mondale