There are moments in an election battle, as in life, when all the possible pathways save one are suddenly closed; when what felt like a wide distribution of probable outcomes narrows to the inevitable.
— Barack Obama
It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.
— Aristotle
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
— Aristotle
is probable that, like the illustrious author of the drama, all were unconscious of any incongruity between their sentiments and actions.