Improbable Quotes

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
Oscar Wilde

Two, Divided, Incredible

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
Oscar Wilde

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Aristotle

Preferred, Probable

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Truth, Impossible, Matter

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.
Barack Obama

Love, Success, Faith

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H. L. Mencken

Faith, May, Belief

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

Dreams, Impossible, Become

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
Douglas Adams

Integrity, Impossible, Often

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
Richard Dawkins

Nature, Simple, Difficult

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
Galileo Galilei

Beauty, Simple, Stand

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Wealth, Aspect, Cases

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Truth, Impossible, Whatever

As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.
Al Gore

Change, Experience, Future

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Truth, Impossible, Old

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
Arthur Conan Doyle

Truth, Impossible, Said

At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.
Christopher Reeve

Dreams, Impossible, Seem

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.
George Ade

Past, Nothing, Until

There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.
Meryl Streep

Earth, Space, Suspended

It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.
E. T. A. Hoffmann

And what could be a hotter ticket than the improbable triumph of 'The Book of Mormon,' the musical-comedy moon shot of the season? Its creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, of Comedy Central's 'South Park,' are the most unlikely Rodgers and Hammerstein team ever to bowl a thundering strike.
James Wolcott

Book, Team, Comedy

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
Madame de Stael

Heart, True, Nothing

The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.
Stephen Jay Gould

Lies, Evolution, Proof

Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.
George P. Baker

Impossible, Possible, Treats

For me to want to be an actor was an improbable idea. I wasn't beautiful or pretty in any conventional way. I wasn't an ingenue at 22. But I was always certain of it and certain of its power. I felt the power when I went to the theater at 9, 10, 12 and 14.
Linda Hunt

Power, Beautiful, Pretty

It is exceedingly improbable that the identical action of the corresponding parts of the two retina is the result of a certain habituation, or of the influence of the mind.
Johannes P. Muller

Mind, Two, Action

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