So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre.
Topic
possibility
/possibility-quotes-and-sayings
Topic Summary
About the possibility quote collection
The possibility page groups 408 quotes under one canonical topic hub so readers and answer engines can cite a stable source instead of fragmented search results.
Topic Feed
Quotes filed under possibility
Through knowledge we gain power over our lives. With options we have possibility. With acceptance we find a new freedom.
Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.
Act as if it was and it will be.
A few simple tips for life: feet on the ground, head to the skies, heart open...quiet mind
As he drifted off, his father came to visit him, clothed in all his possible shapes.
Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.
If nature has taught us anything it is that the impossible is probable
Nothing seems to tempt fate more than mentioning the possibility of something bad happening.
My life is too often driven by the fear of the next moment verses focusing on the privilege that I have the next moment.
We can be seized with panic of the fall, or inspired by the potential that lies within the fall.
Before I had a chance to feel too sorry for myself, I turned toward the front of the cabin and found the bookcases carved right into the wall. Hundreds of leather-bound volumes rested in dim alcoves. I had no idea what stories or information they held. It didn__ matter. I wanted to absorb anything they had to say.
To understand what a person is, it is necessary always to refer to what he may be in the future, for every state of the person is pointed in the direction of future possibilities.
Since 1849 I have studied incessantly, under all its aspects, a question which was already in my mind since 1832. I confess that my scheme is still a mere dream, and I do not shut my eyes to the fact that so long as I alone believe it to be possible, it is virtually impossible. ... The scheme in question is the cutting of a canal through the Isthmus of Suez. This has been thought of from the earliest historical times, and for that very reason is looked upon as impracticable. Geographical dictionaries inform us indeed that the project would have been executed long ago but for insurmountable obstacles. [On his inspiration for the Suez Canal.]
Impossibility only lasts until you find new unbelievable hard evidences.
1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.