Impossible And Improbable Quotes

#1. Nothing holds back human progress as frequently as the misbelief that the words 'impossible' and 'improbable' are synonyms.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#2. Peace is impossible, war is improbable.

Raymond Aron

#3. It's been my experience that while impossible things happen frequently, improbable ones never do.

Craig L. Rice

#4. Eliminate the impossible, and what ever remains, however improbable, must be the truth" - Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

#5. In Sea affairs, nothing is impossible, and nothing is improbable.

Horatio Nelson

#6. Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits.

Daniel Berrigan

#7. The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

Douglas Adams

#8. Nothing is impossible, only mathematically improbable.

Sean Connery

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

#10. With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

Aristotle.

#11. It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll put his job on the line.

Eduardo Galeano

#12. It is humor's job to laugh at the futility oft engendered by the improbable; but it is poetry's job to dream of the potentiality of that which is not impossible.

D.E. Navarro

#13. When you get rid of the impossible, what's left is the only answer, no matter how improbable.

Heather Graham

#14. At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.

Christopher Reeve

#15. The real world was far too real to leave neat little hints. It was full of too many things. It wasn't by eliminating the impossible that you got at the truth, however improbable; it was by the much harder process of eliminating the possibilities.

Terry Pratchett

#16. Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.

George Pierce Baker

#17. Functional coherence makes accidental invention fantastically improbable and therefore physically impossible. The

Douglas Axe

#18. Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.

Douglas Adams

#19. Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible

William Arthur Ward

#20. When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#21. That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.

Aristotle.

#22. Great success often depends on being able to distinguish between the impossible and the improbable.

Brandon Sanderson

#23. The Improbable Is Not Impossible

Anonymous

#24. Here I was, on the cusp of my own great dream, my own impossible truth, and this gluttonous man was crowding it with his improbable vision. There wasn't enough magic in the universe for both of us. Worse, Garth's mad theory put mine in an altogether new light. Was I as crazy as his fat ass?

Mat Johnson

#25. Some things can come to pass, he reminded himself. Some things are improbable, and some are impossible.

Ilona Andrews

#26. An improbable set of circumstances.
An impossible situation.
How long could she hold on to the truth? Should she hold on?...Was she obligated to protect the deceptions of the dead when the truth might somehow help the living?

Jenn J. McLeod

#27. Chase said, "It was a crazy idea." An impossible idea.
"Nothing is impossible, Chase, only improbable. And when you can see into the future and manipulate people into the right places, you can accomplish amazing things."
"I think I liked the idea better when it was in my head.

Adrienne Wilder

#28. I see worries in the fact that we have the power to manipulate genes in ways that would be improbable or impossible through conventional evolution. We shouldn't be complacent in thinking that we can predict the results.

Colin Blakemore

#29. With God, the word 'impossible' is itself impossible.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#30. Well, I think," said Nobby, "that when you rule out the impossible, whatever is left, however improbable, ain't worth hanging around for on a cold night wonderin' about when you could be getting on the outside of a big drink.

Terry Pratchett

#31. Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable

Oscar Wilde

#32. I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools.

Og Mandino

#33. Lucas kicked back in his chair, and thought, Let's go to Sherlock Holmes. When you've eliminated the impossible, whatever was left, however improbable, must be the truth. Or something like that.

John Sandford

#34. Many things are improbable, only a few are impossible.

Elon Musk

#35. When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable.

Leigh Bardugo

#36. Opportunity arises when a seemingly impossible task is met with an improbable solution.

Jeffrey Fry

#37. Dreams are what life is made of and although most things are improbable, nothing is impossible. Be the dreamer of the impossible and you can see probability.

Peace Gypsy

#38. Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.

Rod Sterling

#39. The prospect of the UK without a BBC funded by the licence fee is anywhere between improbable and impossible.

Tessa Jowell

#40. The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that such an object could have been thrown together suddenly by some kind of freakish, vastly improbable, event. Such an occurrence would be indistinguishable from a miracle.

Michael Denton

#41. Once you've ruled out the impossible then whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth. The problem lay in working out what was impossible, of course. That was the trick, all right. There was also the curious incident of the orangutan in the night-time.

Terry Pratchett

#42. It's far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.

Jennifer Armintrout

#43. It's impossible that the improbable will never happen.

Emil Julius Gumbel

#44. I will never consider defeat and I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools. I

Og Mandino

#45. And, with a kiss, Shahrzad let herself fall.
For the boy who was an impossible, improbable study in contrasts. The boy who burned her life to cinder, only to remake of it a world unlike any she had ever known.

Renee Ahdieh

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

#47. It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth, unless the truth is a hypothesis it didn't occur to you to consider.

Jordan Ellenberg

#48. Improbable is not the same as impossible.

Shelley Workinger

#49. Someone once asked me what I thought horror fiction did. What its purpose was . . . I replied that when I wrote horror fiction, I tried to take the improbable, the unimaginable, and the impossible, and make it seem not only possible--but inevitable.

Michael McDowell

#50. I reject your impossible. Most of what others tell me is impossible I know to be improbable. If it is impossible you have nothing more to do but if it is improbable ... you can choose to ask the unasked question or walk the unwalked step. For me that has made all the difference.

Gary Holder-Winfield

#51. Don't ever give up. Don't see the obstacles, just the way around them. For me, of course it looked improbable, but not impossible. So as long as there was a way, I would not be discouraged.

Evanna Lynch

#52. In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened.

Vin Scully

#53. 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

#54. With God, the impossible is not an obstacle but an invitation.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#55. The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.

Louis Sachar

#56. Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

Oscar Wilde

#57. If you couldn't handle someone who did the impossible, the improbable, the implausible, then you couldn't handle the VRMMO player known as Kirito.

Reki Kawahara

#58. Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#59. This is a story of art without markets, drama without a script, narrative without progress. The queer art of failure turns on the impossible, the improbable, the unlikely, and the unremarkable. It quietly loses, and in losing it imagines other goals for life, for love, for art, and for being.

J. Jack Halberstam

#60. Do what feels right to you, in whatever circumstance you find yourself in, even if it seems improbable or even impossible. And have faith. Everything else will follow.

Virginia Boecker