quotations about possibility
Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude, we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of human life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
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Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead
Coordinating there
Events and objects with remote events
And vanished objects. Making ornaments
Of accidents and possibilities
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Pale Fire
I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
HENRY FORD
attributed, The Ladies' Home Journal, 1958
Pleasure disappoints, possibility never.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Either/Or
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, Vince Lombardi's Winning Ways
I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
letter, 1886