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The treasure I have found cannot be described in words, the mind cannot conceive of it. — Adi Shankara
There are several realms which ordinary persons do not perceive. Because they cannot see them, that doesn't mean they don't exist. One of these realms… — Thrangu Rinpoche
One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they deserve. — Nicholas Rescher
Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists. — Corliss Lamont
[T]he laws of quantum mechanics itself cannot be formulated ... without recourse to the concept of consciousness. — Eugene Wigner
We cannot simply suspend or restrict civil liberties until the War on Terror is over, because the War on Terror is unlikely ever to be… — Gerald Bard Tjoflat
As there is not in human observation proper means for measuring the waste of land upon the globe, it is hence inferred, that we cannot… — James Hutton
For the little that one has reflected on the origin of our knowledge, it is easy to perceive that we can acquire it only by… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our… — Antoine Lavoisier
Time, which measures everything in our idea, and is often deficient to our schemes, is to nature endless and as nothing; it cannot limit that… — James Hutton
As ideas are preserved and communicated by means of words, it necessarily follows that we cannot improve the language of any science, without at the… — Antoine Lavoisier
We are apt to consider that invention is the result of spontaneous action of some heavenborn genius, whose advent we must patiently wait for, but… — John Ambrose Fleming
O Lord, we cannot go to the pool of Siloe to which you sent the blind man. But we have the chalice of Your Precious… — Ephrem the Syrian
We cannot safely assume that other people's minds work on the same principles as our own. All too often, others with whom we come in… — Isabel Briggs Myers
If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth. — Angela Thirkell
There is no sinner in the world, however much at enmity with God, who cannot recover God's grace by recourse to Mary, and by asking… — Bridget of Sweden
I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative. — Giovanni della Casa
The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture. — Robert McAfee Brown
The hero dead cannot expire: The dead still play their part. — Charles Sangster
I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing… — Peter Medawar

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