Post Hoc Reasoning Quotes

If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness.

If a person is A) poorly, B) receives treatment intended to make him better, and C) gets better, then no power of reasoning known to medical science can convince him that it may not have been the treatment that restored his health.

To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target

We’re pretty good in Washington at Monday morning quarterbacking.

Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred.

The deductive reasons for a course of action usually follow rather than precede the course of action. Thought follows life.

Tennis analyst is the easiest job in the world because whatever the person does, if it works you just say that's what's good, and if it doesn't work, you guys go, 'He should have done the other things.'.It just doesn't take much thought. If I'm grinding and I'm winning, you guys are like, 'He's reinvented himself.' If I'm playing like crap and pushing, then, you know, 'He's horrible and he needs to hit the ball.'