chance quotes

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we’re not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

Luck is not chance, it’s toil; fortune’s expensive smile is earned.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

No man was ever wise by chance.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.