Improbable Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

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

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

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

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

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

Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.

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.

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

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

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.