A Quote by Aristotle

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

Aristotle

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Aristotle
Greek - Philosopher
384 BC - 322 BC

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

George Pierce Baker

[Attributing the origin of life to spontaneous generation.] However improbable we regard this event, it will almost certainly happen at least once.... The time... is of the order of two billion years.... Given so much time, the "impossible" becomes possible, the possible probable, and the probable virtually certain. One only has to wait: time itself performs the miracles.

George Wald

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

Rod Serling

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

Aristotle

Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.

Cherie Carter-Scott

Anything is possible, but not always probable. Innovators increase the probability of the impossible.

Braden Kelley

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

Very possible! Possible, indeed. Maybe even probable, which, as you know if you study your arithmetic,can happen more often than possible. In other words, probable is more possible than possible. - Bubo

Kathryn Lasky

Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.

John F. Kerry

. . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth; and the most improbable of all that it is any eternal truth.