With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible. — Aristotle
In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened… — Vin Scully
There’s a big difference between probability and outcome. Probable things fail to happen – and improbable things happen – all the time. — Howard S. Marks
One can't logically argue that because something highly improbable happens, some occult force had to make it happen that way. — Sayings
In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable. — Madame de Stael
Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual. — Hans Jonas
What is true is no more sure than the probable — Greek Proverbs
It's highly improbable in the limitless vastness of the Universe that we humans stand alone. — Charles Bolden
No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect. — Erich Maria Remarque
The world is divided into two classes - invalids and nurses. — James Whistler
In Sea affairs, nothing is impossible, and nothing is improbable. — Horatio Nelson
Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist. — Kenneth Patchen
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. — H. L. Mencken
Life after death is as improbable as sex after marriage! — Madeline Kahn
Peace is impossible, war is improbable. — Raymond Aron
Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible — William Arthur Ward
Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible. — Rod Serling
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable. — Oscar Wilde
Improbable Image Quotes
At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable.
However Improbable Quotes
Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination. — Andrea Dworkin
When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Once you've ruled out the impossible then whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth. The problem lay in working out what was impossible, of course. That was the trick, all right. There was also the curious incident of the orangutan in the night-time. — Terry Pratchett
It only seems impossible until it's done.
Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible. — Douglas Adams
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. — Arthur Conan Doyle
For however inhospitable the wind, from this vantage point Manhattan was simply so improbable, so wonderful, so obviously full of promise - that you wanted to approach it for the rest of your life without ever quite arriving. — Amor Towles
I am and always will be - The Optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes. The dreamer of improbable dreams.
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. — Arthur Conan Doyle
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? — Arthur Conan Doyle
The real world was far too real to leave neat little hints. It was full of too many things. It wasn't by eliminating the impossible that you got to the truth, however improbable; it was by the much harder process of eliminating the possibilities. — Terry Pratchett
However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. God is the Ultimate Boeing 747 — Richard Dawkins
About Doubt Quotes
I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality. — Alice Paul
The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough. — Nina Simone
We are the only species of mammal that doubts our ability to give birth. It's profitable to scare women about birth. But let's stop it. I tell women: Your body is not a lemon. — Ina May Gaskin
Remarkable people know the difference between impossible and improbable.
Those who call me God, will fall into the deep pit of hell. Regard me as one of his slaves and have no doubt whatever about it. I am a servant of the Supreme Being; and have come to behold the wonderful drama of life. — Guru Gobind Singh
Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything. — George Carlin
To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality. — Alice Paul
Eliminate the impossible whatever remains however improbable must be the truth.
We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities. — Wendell Berry
(Was he talking about a polar expedition, or marriage?) -Jorge Men Wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success. — Ernest Shackleton
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. — Sylvia Plath
No doubt the Jews aren't a lovable people; I don't care about them myself; but that is not sufficient to explain the Pogrom. — Neville Chamberlain
Implausible Quotes
My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is utterly implausible that a mathematical formula should make the future known to us, and those who think it can would once have believed in witchcraft. — Jacob Bernoulli
The implausible, well-nigh-miraculous functioning anarchy that we know as New York is adorned with every excellence of Western art. It is a city of manifold suggestions, which ministers to every ambition, engenders a thousand talents, nurtures ingenuity and experimentation. — Ibn Warraq
Religious faith obscures uncertainty where uncertainty . . . exists, allowing the unknown, the implausible, and the . . . false to achieve primacy over the facts. — Sam Harris
To think that humans evolved from lower species BUT the evolutionary process somehow came to a halt and we all arrived at the finish line simultaneously is to embrace a fiction possibly more implausible than Christianity. — Jim Goad
If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language. They cause us to connect and reconnect the contents of the collective mind in ever more implausible, beautiful, and self-fulfilling ways. — Terence McKenna
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
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
We'll look for almost any reason not to change our attitudes; the inertia of the established order is powerful. If we can think of a plausible, or even implausible, reason to discount environmental warnings, we will. — Bill McKibben
I suppose I'm qualified to some degree to speak about the nature of contemporary media, as that's where I currently work. People, I think have been beyond trained - coded to not anticipate change; to think that change is implausible. Almost weaned off. It had to be a revolution bred out of us. — Russell Brand
Inconceivable Quotes
To live our lives and miss that great purpose we were designed to accomplish is truly a sin. It is inconceivable that we could be bored in a world with so much wrong to tackle, so much ignorance to reach and so much misery we could alleviate — William Wilberforce
Art alone makes life possible - this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art man is inconceivable in physiological terms...
Even the act of peeling a potato can be an artistic act if it is consciously done. — Joseph Beuys
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. — Joseph Addison
Is it conceivable that a newly emancipated people can soar to the heights of liberty, and, unlike Icarus, neither have its wings melt nor fall into an abyss? Such a marvel is inconceivable and without precedent. There is no reasonable probability to bolster our hopes. — Simon Bolivar
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. — Joseph Addison
The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable without truth and holiness. — Roland Allen
We come from an inconceivable nothingness. We stay a while in something which seems equally inconceivable, only to vanish again into the inconceivable nothingness. — Peter Wessel Zapffe
We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters. — Susan Sontag
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. — Aaron Copland
Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence without grammar-it is incomprehensible, even inconceivable. — Stephen Shore
Unbelievable Things Quotes
The thing about Twitter is it goes directly to your phone like I sent you a text. It's so powerful, it's unbelievable. — Dana White
If you believe, sometimes unbelievable things are possible. — Tim Tebow
Arianna Huffington is unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man - he made a good decision. — Donald Trump
I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV. — Bill Gates
Right now over 70 percent of the world population is convinced that something serious has to be done about the dangers facing the planet. ...Most of humanity wants to know how to make the change. It's one of those tipping-point times where things can change unbelievably fast. — Paul Ray
You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think you've just got to accept who you are and do the most unbelievable things. — Damien Hirst
When I had satisfied myself that no star of that kind had ever shone before, I was led into such perplexity by the unbelievability of the thing that I began to doubt the faith of my own eyes. — Tycho Brahe
The human will is an amazing thing. Time after time, it has triumphed against unbelievable odds. — Stephen Covey
When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending the best. — Donald Trump
Unimaginable Quotes
Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable. — Mary Oliver
You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms. — Terence McKenna
We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine, at least, completely, who and what, and that we are. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined. — N. Scott Momaday
Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context. — Margaret J. Wheatley
Within You is the Light of a Thousand Suns. - Within You is Unimaginable Beauty. — Robert Adams
The New York Times' was enigmatic: 'Some unimaginable gravitational force is pulling our entire galaxy in the opposite direction.' End of article. If you stop and think about that, we are recreating ourselves. — Dwight Schultz
There are literally billions of people on the planet who live in an unimaginable poverty that's not in any way different from the plight of the people in Orchid. And you can't have the splendor of Rodeo Drive without the sweatshops of Indonesia; those two things go hand in hand. — Tom Morello
I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers and deprecates the expenditure of a smaller sum to patch up the ills of mankind. — Harry S. Truman
I accumulated small but consistent habits that ultimately led to results that were unimaginable when I started. — James Clear
There are no dreams too large, no innovation unimaginable and no frontiers beyond our reach. — John S. Herrington
Unbelievably Quotes
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. — G. K. Chesterton
It's a dream come true, and with this music, with this Rossini, it's unbelievable how to express the joy and express the joy of the situation and the joy to play this music, to sing this music, it's really fantastic. — Cecilia Bartoli
Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible. — Corrie Ten Boom
Do you know that every unbeliever is filled with a demon spirit? — Benny Hinn
But why should we not place implicit confidence in God and rely upon His word of promise? Is anything too hard for the Lord? Has His word of promise ever failed? Then let us not entertain any unbelieving suspicions of His future care of us. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but not so His promises. — Arthur W. Pink
It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life. — Mickey Mantle
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Prayer is the most powerful resource we have in this life; yet, many only turn to it as a last resort. When unbelievers pray for repentance of sin and ask for God’s forgiveness, prayer is the spiritual dynamite that obliterates the darkness and despair of a sin-soaked soul. — Franklin Graham
We get more fan mail from India than from America, the U.K., Australia, and Italy combined. It's unbelievable. — James Murray
My fingers are long and beautiful, as, it has been well been documented, are various other parts of my body. — Donald Trump
Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits. — Daniel Berrigan
I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable and beautiful and afraid of nothing as though I had wings. — Mary Oliver
I see worries in the fact that we have the power to manipulate genes in ways that would be improbable or impossible through conventional evolution. We shouldn't be complacent in thinking that we can predict the results. — Colin Blakemore
I have a fierce will to live. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others - and I am one of those - never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end. — Yann Martel
Reading is the way mankind delays the inevitable. Reading is the way we shake our fist at the sky. As long as we have these epic, improbable reading projects arrayed before us, we cannot breathe our last: Tell the Angel of Death to come back later; I haven't quite finished Villette. — Joe Queenan
I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery, but is the explanation for the miracle of existence, why there is something instead of nothing. — Allan Sandage
We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. But, like those other fantasies that we can't disprove, we can say that God is very, very improbable. — Richard Dawkins
As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some of us with more ephemeral weapons, an idea or improbable plan or some sort of formulation about how best to move through the world. An idea that will let us be. Protect us and keep us safe. But a weapon nonetheless. — Colson Whitehead
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. — Christopher Reeve
Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, and delicately balanced to provide exactly the conditions required to support life. In the absence of an absurdly improbable accident, the observations of modern science seem to suggest an underlying, one might say, supernatural plan. — Arno Allan Penzias
Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes. — Kary Mullis
Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out? — Alfred Hitchcock
History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable. — Emile M. Cioran
I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools. — Og Mandino
Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity. — Jeremy Bentham
Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable. — C. S. Lewis
People who believe in God conclude there must have been a divine knob twiddler who twiddled the knobs of these half-dozen constants to get them exactly right. The problem is that this says, because something is vastly improbable, we need a God to explain it. But that God himself would be even more improbable. — Richard Dawkins
There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable. — Thomas Schelling
Nothing is impossible, only mathematically improbable. — Sean Connery
in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable chimeras seem commonplace. — Cormac McCarthy
It must have appeared almost as improbable to the earlier geologists, that the laws of earthquakes should one day throw light on the origin of mountains, as it must to the first astronomers, that the fall of an apple should assist in explaining the motions of the moon. — Charles Lyell
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