One Cannot Quotes

515 quotes by 387 authors

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. — Erich Fromm
One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing. — Emma Goldman
Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of… — Mary Baker Eddy
One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast. I think that's… — Robert Harris
One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem. — Stephen Hawking
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate… — Hermann Hesse
A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and… — Thor Heyerdahl
One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas. — Victor Hugo
Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown. — Soren Kierkegaard
In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in… — Vladimir Kramnik
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom… — Vladimir Lenin
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda. — Douglas MacArthur
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. — Golda Meir
I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really. — Marilyn Monroe
One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages. — Guru Nanak
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into… — Friedrich Nietzsche
One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up. — George Orwell
Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce. — Cesare Pavese

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