Improbable Quote by E. T. A. Hoffmann Download Open image “It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.” — E. T. A. Hoffmann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Improbable
it's been my experience that while impossible things happen frequently, improbable ones never do. — Craig L. Rice Copy Share Image
There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable. — Thomas Schelling Copy Share Image
“There’s a big difference between probability and outcome. Probable things fail to happen—and improbable things happen—all the time.” That” — Howard Marks Copy Share Image
Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature. — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially, the obvious alternative to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction. — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully? — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
The human spirit is itself the most wonderful fairy tale that can possibly be. What a magnificent world lies enclosed within our bosoms! No… — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up… — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Everything here below beneath the sun is subject to continual change; and perhaps there is nothing which can be called more inconstant than opinion,… — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often… — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Every year lays more earth upon us, which weighs us down from aerial regions, till we go under the earth at last. — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
As the priest is characterized by his cassock, so the smoker by his pipe. The way in which he holds it, raises it to… — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
It is true that writers often owe their most inspired thoughts, their most extraordinary phrases, to their generous typesetters, who assist their flights of… — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand. — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“If there is a dark and hostile power which traitorously fixes a thread in our hearts in order that, laying hold of it and… — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
The idea of spontaneous generation of life in its present form is therefore highly improbable even to the scale of the billions of years… — Ilya Prigogine Copy Share Image
We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
the wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by the dreary… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Amphibians are dying out like crazy, and frogs and salamanders may be largely extinct by the end of the twenty-first century. Imagine an animal… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we can know… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In 2007, early in the improbable presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the young first-term senator began a series of foreign-policy speeches that seemed too… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
I reject your impossible. Most of what others tell me is impossible I know to be improbable. If it is impossible you have nothing… — Gary Holder-Winfield Copy Share Image
“Nothing is impossible no matter how improbable, all things can be done before the rising sun!” — Misti Renea Neely Copy Share Image
Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits. — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
The prospect of the UK without a BBC funded by the licence fee is anywhere between improbable and impossible. — Tessa Jowell Copy Share Image
