Top 305 Probable Quotes & Sayings

It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

It is probable that two proposed unknown rations are incommensurable because if many unknown rations are proposed it is most probable that any [one] would be incommensurable to any [other].

Not only are three-putt greens probable, at times they are an achievment.

For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth.

Nature prefers the more probable states to the less probable because in nature processes take place in the direction of greater probability. Heat goes from a body at higher temperature to a body at lower temperature because the state of equal temperature distribution is more probable than a state of unequal temperature distribution.

I was an ugly baby. On my birth certificate there was a listing for Probable Cause.

I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.

We believe that the way you dress and the shoes you wear are not probable cause for questioning or arrest.

If something's important enough, you should try. Even if - the probable outcome is failure.

I don't care what's probable. Through blood, sweat, and tears, I am unstoppable.

[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.

Cellphone and other wireless radiation should be classified as a "probable human carcinogen."

My duty is to make probable the improbable. If I tell you how I did it, I will ruin your experience.

If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.

At times truth may not seem probable.

I think going to college for that one year was probable the best thing I have ever done.

As it gets closer and more probable, being a star is really losing its meaning.

At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War of the Revolution.

After we have thought out everything carefully in advance and have sought and found without prejudice the most plausible plan, we must not be ready to abandon it at the slightest provocation. should this certainty be lacking, we must tell ourselves that nothing is accomplished in warfare without daring; that the nature of war certainly does not let us see at all times where we are going; that what is probable will always be probable though at the moment it may not seem so; and finally, that we cannot be readily ruined by a single error, if we have made reasonable preparations.

Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible

Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.

Option 1: Attempt to back out. Probable result: Death after painful torture. Option 2: Do the job and hope. Probable result: Death but probably no torture (good)

The Fourth Amendment is clear; we should be secure in our persons, houses, papers, and effects, and all warrants must have probable cause. Today the government operates largely in secret, while seeking to know everything about our private lives - without probable cause and without a warrant.

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

Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.

Hope is the belief in the probability of the possible rather than the necessity of the probable.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

It is more than possible; it is probable.

The most probable assumption is that no currently working 'business theory' will be valid 10 years hence.

We live in the most probable of all possible worlds.

You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.

I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical

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

It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.

When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.

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

The present inhabitation of Mars be a race superior to ours is very probable.

It all comes down to probable cause: If you think something's up, maybe you gotta take a look.

When people are using their devices, it's probable that almost half are networking on social media.

Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.

It seems probable that humans have been on the planet, with much the same brain, for about 250,000 years.

Dell is to a degree in the penalty box because expectations and probable results have gotten ratcheted down.

Since a given system can never of its own accord go over into another equally probable state but into a more probable one, it is likewise impossible to construct a system of bodies that after traversing various states returns periodically to its original state, that is a perpetual motion machine.

The philosopher forms his principles on an infinity of particular observations. He does not confuse truth with plausibility, he takes for truth what is true, for false what is false, for doubtful what is doubtful, and probable what is probable. The philosophical spirit is thus a spirit of observation and accuracy.

At least three studies, in the U.S., Canada and Sweden, have linked glyphosate exposure to the disease, and in 2015, the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer found glyphosate to be a 'probable' cause of cancer in humans. California's state environmental protection agency has also declared it a probable carcinogen.

Reality, while generally probable, is not always interesting.

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

How different a loved and familiar spot appears, when viewed with the eye of probable guests.

The probable is what usually happens.

Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds

It's probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet.

It is probable that the lemon is the most valuable of all fruit for preserving health.

Nuclear terrorism is possible - it may be probable - but is survivable.

Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith.

Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'

The laws of thermodynamics, as empirically determined, express the approximate and probable behavior of systems of a great number of particles, or, more precisely, they express the laws of mechanics for such systems as they appear to beings who have not the fineness of perception to enable them to appreciate quantities of the order of magnitude of those which relate to single particles, and who cannot repeat their experiments often enough to obtain any but the most probable results.

It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.

Rule of law is based on probable cause.

It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement.