Probable Quotes

203 quotes by 169 authors

The sea has now changed from its natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the… — George Vancouver
It is probable that the lemon is the most valuable of all fruit for preserving health. — Maud Grieve
To the possible enquiry as to the probable character of a successful flying machine, the writer would answer that in his judgment two types of… — Octave Chanute
It is probable that television drama of high caliber and produced by first-rate artists will materially raise the level of dramatic taste of the nation. — David Sarnoff
It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent. — Walter Dill Scott
It is...highly probable that from the very beginning, apart from death, the only ironclad rule of human experience has been the Law of Unintended Consequences. — Ian Tattersall
First, the probable cause of AIDS has been found: a variant of a known human cancer virus. Second, not only has the agent been identified,… — Margaret Heckler
Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet. — E. V. Lucas
.. that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say, that this final… — David Hume
Since psyche and matter are contained in one and the same world, and moreover are in continuous contact with one another and ultimately rest on… — Carl Jung
A child is born on that day, and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual Karma. His horoscope… — Sri Yukteswar Giri
Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times… — Julien Benda
There is, in fact, no reason to believe that any given natural phenomenon, however marvelous it may seem today, will remain forever inexplicable. Soon or… — H. L. Mencken
If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure. — Elon Musk
Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the edges without any… — John F. Kerry
It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man. — Virginia Woolf
It is probable that all heavy matter possesses - latent and bound up with the structure of the atom - a similar quantity of energy… — Frederick Soddy
In reviewing the most mysterious doctrines of revelation, the ultimate appeal is to reason, not to determine whether she could have discovered these truths; not… — Archibald Alexander
If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born in Arkansas and… — Richard Dawkins
It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally… — Aristotle

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