Possibility Quotes
2817 quotes by 1901 authors
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The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.
— Wilfrid Sheed
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Positivity doesn't just change the contents of your mind...It widens the span of possibilities that you see.
— Barbara Fredrickson
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A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.
— Manfred Eigen
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Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand…
— Toni Morrison
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There's nothing worse than the feeling of wishing you had another chance at a play because you weren't ready. Every athlete has those feelings to…
— Karch Kiraly
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Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the…
— Joan D. Chittister
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A doctor is not a religious man. You should never give people vague hope or possibility.
— Kim Du-han
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Possibilities don't add up, they multiply.
— Paul Romer
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Geology differs from physics, chemistry, and biology in that the possibilities for experiment are limited.
— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
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Every day holds the possibility of a miracle.
— Elizabeth David
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Time and again human consciousness fixates, and slams the door on its greatest gift, the open-endedness of infinite possibility. As a result we do not…
— Jose Arguelles
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As historians, we refuse to allow ourselves these vain speculations which turn on possibilities that, in order to be reduced to actuality, suppose an overturning…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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We stand for a use of color free from the imitation of things as colored objects. We stand for an aerial vision in which the…
— Carlo Carra
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The characteristic property of hallucinogens, to suspend the boundaries between the experiencing self and the outer world in an ecstatic, emotional experience, makes it posible…
— Albert Hofmann
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I realized that my circumstances, while causing me despair and heartbreak, also held great possibility, if only I could see it. I knew that I…
— Suzan-Lori Parks
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However, on many occasions, I examined normal blood and normal tissues and there was no possibility of overlooking bacteria or confusing them with granular masses…
— Robert Koch
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The edifice of science not only requires material, but also a plan. Without the material, the plan alone is but a castle in the air-a…
— Dmitri Mendeleev
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We regard as 'scientific' a method based on deep analysis of facts, theories, and views, presupposing unprejudiced, unfearing open discussion and conclusions. The complexity and…
— Andrei Sakharov
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Time is in itself [not] a difficulty, but a time-rate, assumed on very insufficient grounds, is used as a master-key, whether or not it fits,…
— Joseph Prestwich
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How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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