Impossible Quotes

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Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult. — Samuel Johnson
The purpose of life for man is growth, just as the purpose of life for trees and plants is growth. Trees and plants grow automatically… — Wallace D. Wattles
"Without faith it is impossible to please God," and without faith it is impossible for you to become great. The distinguishing characteristic of all really… — Wallace D. Wattles
Don't try to be unafraid. That is impossible. Rather, go ahead while being afraid. That is the entire secret for abolishing fear. The Supermind teaches… — Vernon Howard
It is impossible for a man to conceal himself. In every act, word or gesture he stands revealed as he is, and not as he… — Ernest Holmes
I think one difficulty is that the problem is one of such enormous complexity that the very mass of facts presented to the public by… — George C. Marshall
If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so… — Henry David Thoreau
It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible. — Ayn Rand
Nothing that is possible in spirit is impossible in flesh and blood. Nothing that man can think is impossible. Nothing that man can imagine is… — Wallace D. Wattles
All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may not some day… — Thomas Huxley
I am convinced that it is impossible to expound the methods of induction in a sound manner, without resting them upon the theory of probability.… — William Stanley Jevons
One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is; values… — Jacques Monod
The regularity with which we conclude that further advances in a particular field are impossible seems equaled only by the regularity with which events prove… — Willis R. Whitney
And what is impossible to science? — Friedrich Engels
I have said that science is impossible without faith. ... Inductive logic, the logic of Bacon, is rather something on which we can act than… — Norbert Wiener
It is impossible to encircle the hips of a girl with my right arm and hold her smile in my left hand, then proceed to… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of the healthful with… — H. L. Mencken
Their minds sang with the ecstatic knowledge that either what they were doing was completely and utterly and totally impossible or that physics had a… — Douglas Adams
Most of the crackpot papers which are submitted to The Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because it… — Freeman Dyson
If you think creating a world without any poverty is impossible, let's do it. Because it is the right thing to do. — Muhammad Yunus

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