He Cannot Quotes
500 quotes by 390 authors
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The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward…
— Plato
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But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do.
— Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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Knowledge cannot be stolen from us. It cannot be bought or sold. We may be poor, and the sheriff may come and sell our furniture,…
— Elihu Burritt
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I am writing for the Christian agnostic, by which I mean a person who is immensely attracted to Christ and who seeks to show his…
— Leslie Weatherhead
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It is my fixed conviction that if a parent can give his children a passionate and wholesome devotion to the outdoors, the fact that he…
— Archibald Rutledge
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What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The…
— Sydney J. Harris
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Enclosed within his artificial creation, man finds that there is “no exitâ€; that he cannot pierce the shell of technology again to find the ancient…
— Jacques Ellul
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Hitler had an unprecedented opportunity, such as no man will ever again be offered so easily, to create something entirely new. However, besides the fact…
— Fritz Thyssen
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Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not. He may be a…
— Thomas Chalmers
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The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritations set into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get ride…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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No matter how much work a man can do, no matter how engaging his personality may be, he will not advance far in business if…
— John Craig
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Above all else, before playing in competitions a player must have regard to his health, for if he is suffering from ill-health he cannot hope…
— Mikhail Botvinnik
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When I analyse a position, I have a sparring partner who understands chess amazingly well. In a way I feel sorry for him, because of…
— Boris Gelfand
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The Spirit is both a builder and a dweller. He cannot dwell where he has not built; He builds to dwell and dwells in only…
— Watchman Nee
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So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct of imparting what…
— James Joseph Sylvester
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The humanitarian wishes to be a prime mover in the lives of others. He cannot admit either the divine or the natural order, by which…
— Isabel Paterson
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The skeptic may deny your doctrine or attack your church but he cannot honestly ignore the fact that your life has been changed.
— Charles R. Swindoll
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A person of definite character and purpose who comprehends our way of thought is sure to exert power over us. He cannot altogether be resisted;…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language
— Jean Rostand
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