We Cannot Quotes

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If we have no faith in ourselves and in the kind of future we can create together, we are fit only to follow, not to… — Charles Luckman
The rule is: we cannot really forgive ourselves unless we look at the failure in our past and call it by its right name. — Lewis B. Smedes
We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange… — Maya Angelou
Genuine forgiveness is participation, reunion overcoming the powers of estrangement. . . We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience… — Paul Tillich
We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when… — Desmond Tutu
We cannot lead a choiceless life. Every day, every moment, every second, there is a choice. If it were not so, we would not be… — Ernest Holmes
We cannot escape history. — Abraham Lincoln
History is the torch that is meant to illuminate the past, to guard us against the repetition of our mistakes of other days. We cannot… — Claude Bowers
We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we… — Joseph Fort Newton
We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. — Michel de Montaigne
There is no life so humble that, if it be true and genuinely human and obedient to God, it may not hope to shed some… — Phillips Brooks
What do marriage vows show? They show that you may want to separate sometime in the future. If there is love between two people, the… — Rajneesh
If you say that this is absurd, that we cannot be in love with everyone at once, I merely point out to you that, as… — William James
Ruth is so loyal and gentle-hearted, we cannot help loving her, as she stands with the reapers amid the waving corn. Her beautiful, unselfish spirit… — Helen Keller
Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent. — Cornel West
We cannot hope, then, in this generation, or for several generations, that the mass of the whites can be brought to assume that close sympathetic… — W. E. B. Du Bois
This attitude of mind - this attitude of uncertainty - is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student… — Richard P. Feynman
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot… — Marilyn Ferguson
In April, we cannot see sunflowers in France, so we might say the sunflowers do not exist. But the local farmers have already planted thousands… — Nhat Hanh
If we cannot agree, let us at any rate agree to differ, but let us part as friends. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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