quotations about possibility
DAWN! thou hast every possibility of life! What canst thou not reveal to man in thy flaming sky? Enough thou sayest, to recreate a world of men. Blind are we. How many of us read thy words aright? We pass them by, cold letters, divining not the fire of eternal life behind them burning. Dawn, thy opportunity is full! We, alas, know not the meaning of thy gorgeous page. Dazed we watch thy letters pale; cold embers, left upon the sky; Life's opportunity flickering into naught.
ELISE PUMPELLY CABOT
"Arizona"
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
Even the possible has its insoluble particle.
EMILY DICKINSON
letter to T. W. Higginson, August 1870
I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
letter, 1886
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, Vince Lombardi's Winning Ways