| "The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error." »Alvin Toffler |
| "If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility" »Sren Aaby Kierkegaard |
| "I dwell in possibility." »Emily Elizabeth Dickinson |
| "I dwell in possibility..." »Emily Dickinson |
| "I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything." »Thomas Huxley |
| "It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me." »Keri Hulme |
| "A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility." »Aristotle |
| "Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them." »John Updike |
| "The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something." »Chauncey Depew |
| "A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it." »Don Fraser |
| "A theory has only the alternative of being wrong. A model has a third possibility - it might be right but irrelevant." »Manfred Eigen |
| "May your walls know joy May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility." »Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey |
| "An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing." »Samuel Smiles |
| "The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment." »James Arthur Baldwin |
| "Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty." »Lionel Trilling |
| "The fact that I have no remedy for the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong possibility that yours is a fake." »Henry Louis Mencken |
| "Invincibility lies in the defense the possibility of victory in the attack. One defends when his strength is inadequate he attacks when it is abundant." »Sun-tzu |
| "Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished." »Orison Swett Marden |
| "Golf is very much like a love affair, if you don't take it seriously, it's no fun, if you do, it breaks your heart. Don't break your heart, but flirt with the possibility." »Louise Suggs |
| "If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands." »Douglas Noel Adams |
| "The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed." »Alexis Carrel |
| "May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery." »Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett |
| "Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty all may live above the troubles of life worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine." »Newell Dwight Hillis |
| "You must accept that you might fail then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, and you don't branch out, you don't try-you don't take the risk." »Rosalynn Carter |
| "The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of continuing to be a nation at all would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities." »Theodore Roosevelt |
| "The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive-you are leaking." »Fran Lebowitz |
| "In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms." »Stephen Jay Gould |
| "I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the 24 hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that ... absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't , matters not one jot. The possibility is always there." »Monica Baldwin |
| "The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved." »Confucius |
| "The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them -which- we are missing." »Gamal Abdel Nasser |
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