Cannot Quotes
17188 quotes by 7215 authors
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All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis.
— Marcel Duchamp
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There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
— Georges Braque
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I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers, only to hope it keeps asking the right questions.
— Grace Hartigan
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That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting…
— Jules Renard
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You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heath of life? The owl whose…
— Khalil Gibran
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Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.
— John Henry Patterson
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
— Woodrow Wilson
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Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.
— Joseph Joubert
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When the logician has resolved each demonstration into a host of elementary operations, all of them correct, he will not yet be in possession of…
— Henri Poincare
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America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.
— Woodrow Wilson
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Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.
— Robert Collier
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You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and the power of…
— Tony Robbins
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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured…
— Gerard De Nerval
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I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem.
— Fitz-Greene Halleck
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No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that…
— Phillip E. Johnson
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If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The narrow-minded who undertake any work will never be satisfied. They cannot understand the actions of those who are large hearted and broad-minded.
— Sathya Sai Baba
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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.
— Sri Aurobindo
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You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer…
— Mario Vargas Llosa
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