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
Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead
Pleasure disappoints, possibility never.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Either/Or
I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
letter, 1886
The light of day showed you the limits of possibility. But walk through the dark, the absolute, total darkness, and the possibilities were limitless.
MICHAEL GRANT
Fear
Even the possible has its insoluble particle.
EMILY DICKINSON
letter to T. W. Higginson, August 1870
Within the limits of man's strength and ability everything is possible; it is only the weak-hearted that believe in impossibilities.
JAMES ELLIS
attributed, Day's Collacon