Cannot Know Quotes
164 quotes by 133 authors
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We cannot know what faith is if we have never had it, and we cannot obtain it as long as we deny it. Faith and…
— Thomas S. Monson
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I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is…
— Albert Camus
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To love someone is to acknowledge the goodness of who they are. Through loving a person we awaken their awareness of their own innate goodness.…
— John Gray
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Life continues, and we all of us keep changing and building, toward what we cannot know.
— Lois Duncan
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A man would know the end he goes to, but he cannot know it if he does not turn, and return to his beginning, and…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Death is not such a bad thing. What would be a bad thing would be living without challenges. Without knowing defeat, we cannot know what…
— Patricia Briggs
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If you’re fifteen or so, today, I suspect that you inhabit a sort of endless digital Now, a state of atemporality enabled by our increasingly…
— William Gibson
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Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot…
— Philippa Gregory
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However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence,…
— Saadi
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I meet you. I remember you. Who are you? You’re destroying me. You’re good for me. How could I know this city was tailor-made for…
— Marguerite Duras
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Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to…
— George R. R. Martin
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Teach us to know that we cannot know, for the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Let faith support us…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginning—from "I" to "we". If you who own the things people must have could understand this,…
— John Steinbeck
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I am but a stranger ... as we all are. Lonely inside our separate skins, we cannot know each others pain and must bear our…
— Alan Moore
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We cannot know the future. All we can do is face it bravely. We should take heed of those we love and respect. But in…
— Juliet Marillier
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One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.
— Jane Austen
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Another person is, at the heart of it, unknowable. And if you cannot know a person enough to always guess what they’re capable of, you…
— Deb Caletti
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This vast life - the real, interior one in which we remain linked to the dead (because the dream inside us ignores trivialities like breath,…
— Anna Funder
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