Cannot Know Quotes

164 quotes by 133 authors

There are some things children cannot know, because once they learn them they are no longer children. — Ashleigh Brilliant
Re-vision â€“ the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction â€“ is for… — Adrienne Rich
We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That… — Maria Montessori
Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know… — Dorothy Allison
We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better;… — Harold Bloom
You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot… — Ernest Hemingway
A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first learn loss, despair, and grief. Of all paths… — Lloyd Alexander
You cannot know where your people are going if you don't know where your people have been. — Forrest Carter
The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is… — Franz Kafka
It is a fine line, in all of us, between civilization and savagery. To any who think they would never cross it, I can only… — Jacqueline Carey
Chronicler picked up his pen, but before he could dip it, Kvothe held up a hand. "Let me say one thing before I start. I've… — Patrick Rothfuss
Intelligent people know they are intelligent. They also know that one person cannot know all, hence a person is not stupid simply because he is… — Lynsay Sands
You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know. What… — Douglas Adams
Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one… — Rollo May
You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know.… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The problem of why God created the universe still troubles thinking men; but if we cannot know why, we can at least know that He… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
You can never get to a person's mind. You cannot know the different deeds and missions of happiness; you can't tell a screm of pleasure… — Ibi Kaslik
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… — Hermann Hesse
Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves. — Adrienne Rich
Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness. — Rainer Maria Rilke

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