One Cannot Quotes

515 quotes by 387 authors

One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they deserve. — Nicholas Rescher
If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth. — Angela Thirkell
If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms. — Pope Pius VI
Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity; (2) They cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straight forwardness; (3) Without subtle ingenuity… — Sun Tzu
One cannot step twice in the same river — Heraclitus
Without Goodness one cannot enjoy enduring happiness — Confucius
Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity. When the Illustrious Buddha taught… — Hermann Hesse
A bonafide spiritual master is non-different from Supreme Personality of Godhead. If one cannot say that the spiritual master is the personal manifestation of the… — Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
Since one cannot visually experience the presence of the Supersoul, He appears before us as a liberated devotee. Such a spiritual master is none other… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner. — Oscar Wilde
Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything. — Aesop
It is a terrible, an inexorable law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim,… — James A. Baldwin
War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they cannot be separated from one… — Milan Kundera
What is of the greatest importance in war is extraordinary speed: One cannot afford to neglect opportunity. — Sun Tzu
One cannot enter don Juan's world intellectually, like a dilettante seeking fast and fleeting knowledge. Nor, in don Juan's world, can anything be verified absolutely.… — Carlos Castaneda
One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them. — Rosamond Lehmann
Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable… — George Orwell
Writing is rewriting. A writer must learn to deepen characters, trim writing, intensify scenes. To fall in love with the first draft to the point… — Richard North Patterson
One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we… — Heinrich Hertz
I always choose an area that is of personal interest, but I don't plan my travels in detail. There are so many variables one cannot… — Josef Hoflehner

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