Quotes About Possibility

Beauty is, in some way, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages… a beautiful object must always follow certain rules. A beautiful nose shouldn't be longer than that or shorter than that, on the contrary, an ugly nose can be as long as the one of Pinocchio, or as big as the trunk of an elephant, or like the beak of an eagle, and so ugliness is unpredictable, and offers an infinite range of possibility. Beauty is finite, ugliness is infinite like God.

315Beauty is, in some way, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages… a beautiful object must always follow certain rules. A beautiful nose shouldn't be longer than that or shorter than that, on the contrary, an ugly nose can be as long as the one of Pinocchio, or as big as the trunk of an elephant, or like the beak of an eagle, and so ugliness is unpredictable, and offers an infinite range of possibility. Beauty is finite, ugliness is infinite like God.

Pengetahuan tidak hanya terdiri atas mengenai apa yang harus dan dapat kita lakukan, tetapi juga tahu apa yang mungkin tidak usah dilakukan (Kata Willian dalam The Name of the Rose)

World visions can conceive of everything, except alternative world visions...

Toda imagen estética está superada por las imágenes posibles que suscita, que abre. Sin embargo, no podría manifestarse ningún desvarío, porque la experiencia tiene lugar sobre y en el objeto.

La ciencia no consiste sólo en saber lo que debe o puede hacerse, sino también en saber lo que podría hacerse aunque quizá no debiera hacerse.

The sign is not concerned with that smoke and that fire, but with the possibility of a relationship between antecedent and consequent regulating of any occurrence of the smoke (and of the fire). The sign is type, not occurrence.

Anything was possible if the impossible was true.

Porque la ciencia no consiste sólo en saber lo que debe o puede hacerse, sino también en saber lo que podría hacerse aunque quizá no debiera hacerse.

It is perfectly possible that what has ever been exists always, and that what is going to be has likewise existed always. So I decided to take a new attitude of mind; I am ready to believe anything if I get enough evidence, and I hesitate before I say that anything is impossible

It was the kind of silence that fills you with light and makes you believe you can do anything you want.

Within each individual on this large and complicated world there lives an astounding potential for greatness.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.

He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen.

les plus belles années d'une vie sont celles que l'on a pas encore vécues.

El futuro tiene muchos nombres. Para los débiles es lo inalcanzable. Para los temerosos, lo desconocido. Para los valientes es la oportunidad

It is an error to imagine that fate can be exhausted, and that one has reached the bottom of anything whatever.

No era la facultad de amar lo que le faltaba, sino la posibilidad.

You see things and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were And say, 'Why not?'" —George Bernard Shaw

Some things need to be simply planted in the soft dirt of possibility.

I don't want him to say his hope (wish) out loud. Some things need to be simply planted in the soft dirt of possibility.

He sighed. "You will learn that a lot of things are possible.