Quotations about

Possibility

If I had thought about it, I wouldn’t have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can’t do this.

—Spencer Silver

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

—George Bernard Shaw

Things are only impossible until they're not.

—Hannah Louise Shearer

To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

—Tom Robbins

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

—Christian Nestell Bovee

The possible ranks higher than the actual.

—Martin Heidegger

The mighty oak was once a little nut that stood its ground.

—Unknown

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Leap, and the net will appear.

—John Burroughs

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

—John Kenneth Galbraith

It could be that there's only one word and it's all we need. It's here in this pencil. Every pencil in the world is like this.

—W. S. Merwin

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

—Samuel Johnson

Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.

—Mignon McLaughlin

Art is anything you can get away with.

—Marshall McLuhan

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

—Harry Emerson Fosdick