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Cannot Quotes by Wendell Berry
- An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled…
- We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if…
- This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale oil, gasified coal,…
- You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough
- There are two laws that we had better take to be absolute. The first is that as we cannot exempt ourselves from living in this…
- We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy.
- Soil is not usually lost in slabs or heaps of magnificent tonnage. It is lost a little at a time over millions of acres by…
- We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.
- One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.
- You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.
- We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
- Give your approval to all you cannot understand.
- So, friends, every day do something that won't compute...Give your approval to all you cannot understand...Ask the questions that have no answers. Put your faith…
- Beauty . . . cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact; it is not a quantity.
- You have been given questions to which you cannot be given answers. You will have to live them out - perhaps a little at a…
- Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with…
- And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one…
- Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we cannot…
- We still (sometimes) remember that we cannot be free if our minds and voices are controlled by someone else. But we have neglected to understand…
- This is a book about Heaven. I know it now. It floats among us like a cloud and is the realest thing we know and…
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
- There is Nothing in this world. Which cannot be achieved. If you have the guts to do everything which it will take. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. — Joe Biden
- It is not possible to provide evidence of life after death to the five senses anymore than it is possible to provide… — Gary Zukav
- 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
- If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater. — Pam Brown
- Out of hate, if you try to love that love will just be a hidden hate; it cannot be anything else-you are… — Rajneesh
- There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development… — Lord Acton