Impossible Quotes

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We must strive for freedom if we strive for self-knowledge. The task of self-knowledge and of further self-development is of such importance and seriousness, it… — G I Gurdjieff
Cultivate your gardenÂ… Do not depend upon teachers to educate you Â… follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own… — Will Durant
Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked… — Pliny the Elder
How many things... are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected? — Pliny the Elder
As impossible as it is for us to take a breath in the morning large enough to last us until noon, so impossible is it… — Ole Hallesby
The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible — Albert Einstein
To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. — William Shakespeare
The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the success of a… — Eric Hoffer
A healthy and wholesome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation. — Mark Twain
The hugely popular Windows 95 operating system revolutionized the software world thanks to its capability of accomplishing the seemingly impossible task of making Bill Gates… — Dave Barry
I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with… — Sinclair Lewis
Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject; it's a joke to suppress the subject,… — Pablo Picasso
Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed. — John Dryden
It is difficult to judge one's contemporaries; perhaps it is impossible to understand them. — Odilon Redon
It is impossible to tell you the perfect sweetness of the lips and closed eyes, nor the solemnity of the seal of death which is… — John Ruskin
All education is despotism. It is perhaps impossible for the young to be conducted without introducing in many cases the tyranny implicit in obedience. Go… — William Godwin
The improbability of a malicious story serves but to help forward the currency of it, because it increases the scandal. So that, in such instances,… — Laurence Sterne
From the moment a New Yorker is confronted with almost any large city of Europe, it is impossible for him to pretend to himself that… — Edmund Wilson
However depressed I may be I am not in the habit of giving up a project without having tried everything, even the 'impossible', to gain… — Paul Gauguin
It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity. — Charles Darwin

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