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Quotes About Probable

Now how I play a part, as an individual, in the foreseen course of history, I don't know. Perhaps I have no definite part, since the Plan leaves individuals to indeterminacy and free will. But I am important and they—they, you understand—may at least have calculated my probable reaction. So I distrust my impulses, my desires, my probable reactions.
~ Isaac Asimov
The disappearance of Israel as a Zionist project, through war, cultural exhaustion or demographic momentum, is... plausible... Many Israelis see the demise of the country as not just possible, but probable.
~ Ian Lustick
Dullards would have you believe that once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth... but to a mathematical mind, the impossible is simply a theorem yet to be solved. We must not eliminate the impossible, we must conquer it, suborn it to our purpose.
~ Kim Newman
This child did not need to "change his behaviors." We needed to understand his behaviors and what they suggested as the probable underlying reason for the behaviors. We needed to remember that behaviors are a message, a symptom—not a diagnosis.
~ Carol Stock Kranowitz
My vivid imagination, in conjunction with a Type Triple A, drive-it-to-the-ground personality, means that I conjure up all sorts of dire and dreadful scenarios for any given set of actual facts. The less probable the outcome, the more likely I am to come up with it, and I am fully capable of fancying an array of potential scenarios ranging from the mundane to everything that you find in a Bruce Willis movie.
~ Carolyn Henderson
Today's negligible rise in stock market does not mean that declining trend seen from 4th April is over, still NIFTY touching 12050 is quite probable in few months
~ Lakshheish M Patel
Organism is opposed to chaos, to disintegration, to death, as message is to noise. To describe an organism, we do not try to specify each molecule in it, and catalogue it bit by bit, but rather to answer certain questions about it which reveal its pattern: a pattern which is more significant and less probable as the organism becomes, so to speak, more fully an organism.
~ Norbert Wiener
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 are trying to communicate but when communication is established there is nothing more to be said.
~ Virginia Woolf
If you're a rational being, don't make such ridiculous excuses. Habit! If I was to get a habit (as you call it) of walking on the ceiling, like the flies, I should hear enough of it, I daresay. It appeared so probable that such a habit might be attended with some degree of notoriety, that Mr Chick didn't venture to dispute the position. 'Bow-wow-wow!
~ Charles Dickens
Criminal Minds, False Flag: "When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In other words, I was risking an unlikely and temporary 3 or 4 for a probable and permanent 9 or 10,
~ Timothy Ferriss
Ils parlaient tous à la fois, et leurs voix insistantes, contradictoires, impatientes, rendaient l'irréel possible, puis probable, puis indubitable, comme font les gens quand leurs désirs sont devenus des mots.
~ William Faulkner
Superstition originates among ordinary people in the early and all too zealous instruction they receive in religion: they hear of mysteries, miracles, deeds of the Devil, and consider it very probable that things of this sort could occur in everything anywhere.
~ Unknown
When you have excluded the impossible, what remains, however improbable, must be the truth
~ Jennifer Weiner
It is...highly probable that from the very beginning, apart from death, the only ironclad rule of human experience has been the Law of Unintended Consequences.
~ Ian Tattersall
It is...highly probable that from the very beginning, apart from death, the only ironclad rule of human experience has been the Law of Unintended Consequences.
~ Ian Tattersall
What is spoken of the unchanging or intelligible must be certain and true; but what is spoken of the created image can only be probable; being is to becoming what truth is to belief.
~ Plato
The truth is it's more probable that the coronavirus escaped from a Chinese lab that was known to both be tinkering and souping up viruses, and also had reports known of lax security.
~ Will Cain
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 of an inward and probable culture.
~ Laurence Olivier
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
~ Christopher Reeve
Imagine the time it would take if every aspect of experience had to be scrutinized afresh every minute of every day. No; in order to free ourselves from the mundane it is essential that we delegate much of our interpretation of the world to that lower area of the mind that deals with the presumed, the assumed, the probable.
~ Diane Setterfield
The lines change. Did you know that? Destiny is not fixed. It's a probable path, but life alters it. Otherwise, how boring life would be, non?
~ M.J. Rose
This particular type of road was a motorway. A motorway is the most advanced type of road there is, which as with most forms of human advancement essentially meant accidental death was considerably more probable.
~ Matt Haig