Impossibility Quote by Aristotle

“Improbable is not the same as impossible.”

— Shelley Workinger

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

— Aristotle

“On Writing: "A multitude of improbabilities can be forgiven as long as enough plausibility has been established.”

— Danielle Ackley-McPhail

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

— Aristotle

Possible impossibility emerges from an impossible possibility, or possibly, impossible possibility blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“The reader may ask how to tell fact from fiction. A rough guide: anything that seems particularly unlikely is probably true.”

— Hilary Mantel

“An unlikely event is likely to happen because there are so many unlikely events that could happen.”

— Per Bak

Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.

— Ada Leverson

“Sometimes, impossibility isn't about defying reason, but simply lack of willingness to believe in otherwise.”

— Toba Beta

“The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.”

— Douglas Adams

“Eliminate the impossible, and what remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth,”[40]”

— Jonathan P. Brazee

“But then the course of events takes no account of verisimilitude. Fiction has to be probable; fact does not.”

— Aldous Huxley