Probable Quotes

203 quotes by 164 authors

That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable. — Aristotle
Nothing is harder, yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The very fact that… — Hermann Hesse
I don't care what's probable. Through blood, sweat, and tears, I am unstoppable. — Anthony Robles
Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A… — C.S. Lewis
It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs. — Aristotle
We have never denied that it is possible, indeed probable, that other forms of life, even intelligent life, exist in the universe. But this is… — Paul Kurtz
Exercise cannot secure us from that dissolution to which we are decreed; but while the soul and body continue united, it can make the association… — Samuel Johnson
Remember that the future is not somewhere we are going, it is something we are creating. Everyday we do things that make some futures more… — Ian Lowe
You have to create your self-belief by going to your core to find the probable reasons for the negativity in you, and then demolish them. — Steve Backley
I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on… — Abraham Lincoln
For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth. — Honore de Balzac
There is exactly the same degree of possibility and likelihood of the existence of the Christian God as there is of the existence of the… — Bertrand Russell
To achieve the impossible, you need to first develop the mindset that it's probable. Please don't allow the current limits of your life define your… — Robin Sharma
It does not, however, seem impossible that by an attention to breed, a certain degree of improvement, similar to that among animals, might take place… — Thomas Malthus
It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress. In the process by which opinion… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Fossey, Fossey, you cranky difficult strong-arming self-destructive misanthrope, mediocre scientist, deceiver of earnest college students, probable cause of more deaths of the gorillas than if… — Robert M. Sapolsky
It is probable that a greater number of monuments of the skill and industry of man will, in the course of the ages, be collected… — Charles Lyell
As Gove knows.... 'Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more… — George Orwell
My sense is that we are missing a huge part of the human story. I think it's possible, indeed probable, that we are a species… — Graham Hancock
The probable is what usually happens. — Aristotle

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