Cannot Tell Quotes

168 quotes by 143 authors

• Even if it were true that we need God to be moral, it would of course not make God's existence more likely, merely more desirable… — Richard Dawkins
• I cannot tell a joke. But I can do a situation, that it becomes a joke. — Don Rickles
• I know how the birds fly, how the fishes swim, how animals run. But there is the Dragon. I cannot tell how it mounts on… — Confucius
• No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest. — Bertrand Russell
• The whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind so that I can survey it at a glance. Nor do… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• You cannot tell a poor boy from a small country town on the plains of South Dakota who has had the opportunity to be a… — Hubert H. Humphrey
• I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one… — Chief Joseph
• I cannot tell you how many people, powerful people, come to my studio and they are in tears they are so moved by what they… — Richard MacDonald
• Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer’s mind… — Desiderius Erasmus
• I cannot tell you how proud watching that [Iraqi] war coverage makes me. I know a lot of people are saying that they think that… — Dennis Miller
• Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession. — George Bernard Shaw
• The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for… — Thomas Carlyle
• I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward shapes and figures… — Thomas Browne
• To tell the truth I cannot call my childhood bad. In your childhood you can't compare things: one eats carrots, one eats candy, both taste… — Roman Abramovich
• I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our… — Michael Polanyi
• The landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier or a civilian - a woman, a child, a grandmother going out to collect firewood to… — Jody Williams
• The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example. — Henry Ward Beecher
• I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me. — Jan Karon
• Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive; it can tell… — Jonathan Sacks
• I have to report to those of you who think diamonds make a difference that I cannot tell what it is. Seriously, as you all… — James Galway

Who Wrote These Cannot Tell Quotes

143 authors contributed a total of 168 Cannot Tell Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 3 Cannot Tell Quotes by Maxwell Maltz
• 3 Cannot Tell Quotes by Erwin Schrodinger
• 2 Cannot Tell Quotes by Winston Churchill
• 2 Cannot Tell Quotes by William Shakespeare
• 2 Cannot Tell Quotes by Michael Lewis
• 2 Cannot Tell Quotes by Mark Twain
• 2 Cannot Tell Quotes by Jonathan Sacks
• 2 Cannot Tell Quotes by John Green
• 2 Cannot Tell Quotes by Jody Williams
• 2 Cannot Tell Quotes by Eckhart Tolle
• 2 Cannot Tell Quotes by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
• 2 Cannot Tell Quotes by Chief Joseph
• 2 Cannot Tell Quotes by Charles Dickens
• 2 Cannot Tell Quotes by Bertrand Russell
• 1 Cannot Tell Quote by Zhuangzi
• 1 Cannot Tell Quote by Yamamoto Tsunetomo
• 1 Cannot Tell Quote by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• 1 Cannot Tell Quote by Warren Farrell
• 1 Cannot Tell Quote by Walter Wriston
• 1 Cannot Tell Quote by Walter Scott
• 1 Cannot Tell Quote by Walter Alexander Raleigh
• 1 Cannot Tell Quote by Virginia Woolf
• 1 Cannot Tell Quote by Victor Hugo
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• 1 Cannot Tell Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot