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Cannot Quotes by Hermann Hesse
- Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity. When the Illustrious Buddha taught…
- Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot.
- Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.
- Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
- Knowledge can be conveyed, but not wisdom. It can be found, it can be lived, it is possible to be carried by it, miracles can…
- I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back.
- Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every…
- Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate…
- What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking…
- Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.
- There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that…
- Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.
- There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge-that is everywhere,…
- There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.
- Every natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which most often intimates…
- Love can be begged, bought, or received as a gift, one can find it in the street, but one cannot steal it.
- One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage.
- Those who direct the maximum force of their desires towards the center, toward the true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate souls because…
- So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last…
- Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty.
- You love nobody. Is that not true?" "Maybe," said Siddhartha wearily. "I am like you. You cannot love either, otherwise how could you practice love…
- When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look…
- Without a mother, one cannot love. Without a mother, one cannot die.
- Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just…
More Cannot Quotes
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But… — Gerard Arpey
- Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden