Possibility Quotes

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We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it. — Phillips Brooks
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To… — Albert Einstein
Because of jealousy you are in constant suffering; you become mean to others. And because of jealousy you start becoming phony, because you start pretending.… — Rajneesh
Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility - because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist. Then your search is only for… — Rajneesh
Look wide, beyond your immediate surroundings and limits, and you see things in their right proportion. Look above the level of things around you and… — Robert Baden-Powell
There is no human life so poor and small as not to hold many a divine possibility. — James Martineau
Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it insures the possibility… — Aristotle
Music begins where the possibilities of language end. — Jean Sibelius
When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people. — John Coltrane
Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's… — Gary Smalley
Politically speaking, tribal nationalism [patriotism] always insists that its own people are surrounded by 'a world of enemies' - 'one against all' - and that… — Hannah Arendt
The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity… — Ellen Key
Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence. — Leo Tolstoy
I realized that public affairs were also my affairs. I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and… — Helen Gahagan Douglas
The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility… — Simone Weil
To most theistic believers, human life can have no meaning in a universe without God. Quite sincerely, and with understandable yearning for a meaning to… — Victor J. Stenger
May every young scientist remember and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give… — Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett
Democracy is not just a question of having a vote. It consists of strengthening each citizen's possibility and capacity to participate in the deliberations involved… — Fernando Henrique Cardoso
I think we're creating a situation that's incredibly dangerous. There's a lot of chat at the moment about the war on terror and whilst there… — Emma Thompson
Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote,… — Herman Melville

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