Quotes About Possibility

starts upon the supposition that when you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. It

Cuando has eliminado lo imposible, lo que queda, por muy improbable que parezca, tiene que ser la verdad.

From a drop of water, said the writer, a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other. So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a single link of it. Like all other arts, the Science of Deduction and Analysis is one which can only be acquired by long and patient study nor is life long enough to allow any mortal to attain the highest possible perfection in it.

Let me indicate a possible line of thought. It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?

When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.

Siempre hay que buscar una posible alternativa y estar preparado para ella.

The past and the present are within my field of inquiry, but what a man may do in the future is a hard question to answer.

Some times we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.

LINDA: I know, dear, I know. But he likes to have a letter. Just to know that there's still a possibility for better things.

Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for what might have been

Out of any piece of wood a god may be carved.

Only through the unification of time and space is there matter, i.e. the possibility of simultaneity, and through that, duration, and again through these, the persistence of substance during alteration of state.

In fact, the balance wheel which maintains in motion the watch of metaphysics that never runs down, is the clear knowledge that this world's non-existence is just as possible as its existence. ?from_The World as Will and Representation_. Translated from the German by E. F. J. Payne. In Two Volumes, Volume II, p. 171

It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened

Anything's possible in Human Nature, Chacko said in his Reading Aloud voice. Talking to the darkness now, suddenly insensitive to his little fountain-haired niece. Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy. Of the four things that were Possible in Human Nature, Rahel thought that Infinnate Joy sounded the saddest. Perhaps because of the way Chacko said it. Infinnate Joy. With a church sound to it. Like a sad fish with fins all over.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. Maybe many of us won't be here to greet her, but on a quiet day, if I listen very carefully, I can hear her breathing.

The time has come, the Walrus said. Perhaps things will become worse and then better. Perhaps there's a small god up in heaven readying herself for us. Another world is not only possible, she's on her way. Maybe many of us won't be here to greet her, but on a quiet day, if I listen very carefully, I can hear her breathing.

A new world is not only possible

Hubo una época en que lo inconcebible se hizo concebible y ocurrió lo imposible.

Nonetheless, what I saw was: better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.

That left only one possibility:

Yet although the odds were against me, it wasn't as if I had no chance of succeeding.

It had never occurred to me that I could go.

But he agreed that it could not be ruled out.