Probable Quotes

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We must take care not to admit as true anything, which is only probable. For when one falsity has been let in, infinite others follow. — Baruch Spinoza
It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. The true object of juvenile… — William Godwin
All my life I have been haunted by the obsession that to desire a thing or to love a thing intensely is to place yourself… — Tennessee Williams
I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another. — David Hume
At times truth may not seem probable. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
After too much art that made too much sense, artists are operating blind again. They're more interested in the possible than the probable, the private… — Jerry Saltz
Not every good idea survives. Not every new form of art is repeated. Not every new potential instinct is successful. Only the successful ones get… — Rupert Sheldrake
Nature prefers the more probable states to the less probable because in nature processes take place in the direction of greater probability. Heat goes from… — Max Planck
They also have at that critical point of death the opportunity to be converted to God through repentance. And if they are so obstinate that… — Thomas Aquinas
A person who is psychic is following a line of probability to see a probable future; but it can change. Another causal fact will interfere… — Frederick Lenz
The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with the philosophical principles… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from… — W. S. Gilbert
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things. — Richard Dawkins
The concern around probable questions, which in a sense have been hidden, will grow around the world and the matter is critical, the reason we… — Thabo Mbeki
I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence… — Mary Wortley Montagu
I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign… — Laurence Olivier
Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much… — George Orwell
For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and… — Virginia Woolf
With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible. — Aristotle
I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs… — Benjamin Franklin

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