One Cannot Quotes

515 quotes by 387 authors

One cannot afford to be a realist. — Albert Bandura
The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no… — Virginia Woolf
A religion is a source of happiness and I would not deprive anyone of happiness. But it is a comfort appropriate for the weak, not… — Robert A. Heinlein
On a motif such as was indicated by Reti one cannot build the plan of a whole well contested game; it is too meagre, too… — Emanuel Lasker
Giving up the center must not here be regarded as illogical. Was happiness no happiness because it endured for just a short time? One cannot… — Aron Nimzowitsch
Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that… — Brian Jacques
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot. — F. H. Bradley
If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance — Margery Allingham
One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living. — Emile M. Cioran
One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors. To dwell long upon them is to add to the offense. — Henry David Thoreau
One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of… — Emile Durkheim
One cannot live a creative life without first letting go of the fear of being wrong. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
Education has two aspects; the first is related to external and worldly education, which is nothing but acquiring bookish knowledge. In the modern world, we… — Sathya Sai Baba
It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus… — Gerard Manley Hopkins
Even in the Western world, one cannot argue that the ideal has been achieved given the existence of issues like the integration, participation and representation… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a machine is explained… — Georges Canguilhem
I believe in nothing here, except a handful of people, a few ideas, and the fact that one cannot arrest movement. — Alexander Herzen
One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action. — Robert McNamara

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