Likely Quotes

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man. (Themistocles)
Associate with people who are likely to improve you. View quote
Seneca
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell. View quote
George Orwell
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. View quote
Hannah Arendt
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. View quote
Arnold J. Toynbee
When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair. View quote
Sylvester Stallone
When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect. View quote
George Boole
Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding? View quote
Philip Roth
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is. View quote
Joseph Addison
Any kind of creative activity is likely to be stressful. The more anxiety, the more you feel that you are headed in the right direction. Easiness, relaxation, comfort - these are not conditions that usually accompany serious work. (Joyce Carol Oates)
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires. View quote
Bertrand Russell
A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that. View quote
Golda Meir
The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong. View quote
Marlene Dietrich
The most decisive actions of our life I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future are, more often than not, unconsidered. View quote
André Gide
The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach. View quote
Sophocles
A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle. View quote
Tom Clancy
If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless. (Charles II of England)
The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir. View quote
Thomas Fuller
The fundamental criterion for judging any procedure is the justice of its likely results. View quote
John Rawls
Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. View quote
Steve Jobs
I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure. View quote
George W. Bush