Cannot Be Said Quotes

43 quotes by 40 authors

• Owing to the imperfection of language the offspring is termed a new animal, but it is in truth a branch or elongation of the parent;… — Erasmus Darwin
• There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. — Victor Hugo
• A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when… — Kevin Kelly
• It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star… — Terry Pratchett
• I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. So I think that was probably my most valued characteristic as a… — Julia Roberts
• The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot… — Erwin Schrodinger
• It cannot be said that the Constitution formed 'the people of the United States,' for all time, into a corporation. It does not speak of… — Lysander Spooner
• A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. — Henry David Thoreau
• The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are… — Voltaire
• What can be shown, cannot be said. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
• What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written. — Jacques Derrida
• He no longer wished to be dead. At the same time, it cannot be said that he was glad to be alive. But at least… — Paul Auster
• Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other… — Robert A. Heinlein
• truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what… — Herman Melville
• I thought: hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For… — Lu Xun
• But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also,… — Dorothy Parker
• The world is large,” said Okonkwo. “I have even heard that in some tribes a man’s children belong to his wife and her family.” “That… — Chinua Achebe
• We may be truly said to worship God, though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity. — Stephen Charnock
• The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words… — Ursula K. Le Guin

Who Wrote These Cannot Be Said Quotes

40 authors contributed a total of 43 Cannot Be Said Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Cannot Be Said Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 2 Cannot Be Said Quotes by Julia Roberts
• 1 Cannot Be Said Quote by Giovanni Boccaccio
• 1 Cannot Be Said Quote by Dorothy Parker
• 1 Cannot Be Said Quote by Chinua Achebe
• 1 Cannot Be Said Quote by Winston Churchill
• 1 Cannot Be Said Quote by Stephen Charnock
• 1 Cannot Be Said Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll
• 1 Cannot Be Said Quote by Ghani
• 1 Cannot Be Said Quote by Benjamin Tucker
• 1 Cannot Be Said Quote by Kacie Conroy
• 1 Cannot Be Said Quote by Unknown Author
• 1 Cannot Be Said Quote by Bill Bryson
• 1 Cannot Be Said Quote by Rajneesh
• 1 Cannot Be Said Quote by Jim Harrison
• 1 Cannot Be Said Quote by Sappho
• 1 Cannot Be Said Quote by Tom Bissell
• 1 Cannot Be Said Quote by William Penn
• 1 Cannot Be Said Quote by George Orwell
• 1 Cannot Be Said Quote by Barbara Kingsolver
• 1 Cannot Be Said Quote by V.S. Naipaul
• 1 Cannot Be Said Quote by Thornton Wilder
• 1 Cannot Be Said Quote by H. P. Blavatsky
• 1 Cannot Be Said Quote by Erasmus Darwin
• 1 Cannot Be Said Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky