Aristotle
Aristotle

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Charles R. Swindoll
Charles R. Swindoll

Alleged 'impossibilities' are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.

Charles W. Chesnutt
Charles W. Chesnutt

Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.

Kyle Hill
Kyle Hill

Jesus walking on water is an allegory, not fluid mechanics. God destroying the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah is a warning, not a historical battle. Doubting Thomas is an example, not a person. The story of Noah, with all of its scientific and historical impossibilities, can be read the same way.

Lawrence M. Krauss
Lawrence M. Krauss

The Bible is full of dubious scientific impossibilities, from Jonah living inside a whale, to the sun standing still in the sky for Joshua.

Nicholas Mosley
Nicholas Mosley

The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity.

Robert South
Robert South

It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.

Scott Derrickson
Scott Derrickson

If we're not compelled to gain a deeper understanding of good and evil, how can we make the world a better place? How can we find ourselves at the end of our lives and know that our lives were significant? Those things would be impossibilities.