W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We cannot teach children the danger of telling lies to men without realising, on the man's part, the danger of telling lies to children. A single untruth on the part of the master will destroy the results of his education.”
Source: Emile
“We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.”
“We cannot tell a client what to do, but we can say what to do with what we say.”
“We cannot tell anything about what [Donald Trump] is going to do, but if, let's say if he is going to fight the terrorists, of course we are going to be ally, natural ally in that regard with the Russian, with the Iranian, with many other countries who wanted to defeat the terrorists.”
“We cannot tell by looking at the diamond that it is a commodity. When it serves as a use-value, asthetic or mechanical, on the breast of a harlot, or in the hand of a glasscutter, it is a diamond and not a commodity.”
“We cannot tell some people what it is believe, partly because they are too stupid to understand, partly because we are too proudly vague to explain.”
Source: The Collected Prose of Robert Frost
“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of acts of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.”
“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”
“We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we can take it, what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end.”
“We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.”
“We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.”
“We cannot think of ourselves save as to some extent social being. Hence, we cannot separate the idea of ourselves and our own good from our idea of others and their good.”
Source: The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 5: Ethics: 1908
“We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves... One can't unite bananas with scattered leaves.”
“We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. When we see the martyr to virtue, subject as he is to the infirmities of a man, yet suffering the tortures of a demon, and bearing them with the magnanimity of a God, do we not behold a heroism that angels may indeed surpass, but which they cannot imitate, and must admire.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.”
Source: Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives Through the Power and Practice of Story
“We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!”
“We cannot tolerate a nuclear Iran. It would be a game changer. Not only would it threaten Israel, a country that is our stalwart ally, but it would also create an environment in which you could set off an arms race in this Middle East.”
“We cannot tolerate comments of such hatred, such anti-Semitism, such intolerance. And these comments are all the more troubling given that we know of Iran's nuclear ambitions.”
“We cannot tolerate one mistake from others, and yet God tolerates a planet covered with His own creation that live their entire lives sinning and denying Him, and yet continues to feed, clothe and protect them.”
“We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable.”
“We cannot train ourselves to be perfect, but we can ensure we have better intuition when it comes to human behavior.”
Source: I'm Just Saying: A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an Increasingly Divided World
“We cannot train women and forget about the men. We should train men to know the potential of women.”
“We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.”
Source: The Education of a British-Protected Child
“We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'”
“We cannot transform what we refuse to engage”
“We cannot treat people with a right to asylum the same way as people from a safe country. They need to be sent back. That is, from our perspective, completely clear. On the other hand, we should scrutinize the now completely outdated principle that only the migrants' first country of arrival should be burdened with their registration as well as with the process of sorting out who has the right to asylum and who needs to be deported.”
“We cannot truly face life until we face the fact that it will be taken away from us.”
“We cannot truly love God if we do not love our fellow travelers on this mortal journey.”
“We cannot truly plan, because we do not understand the future-but this is not necessarily a bad news. We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations. It just takes guts.”
Source: The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility
“We cannot truly understand Artificial Intelligence without first reflecting on the mechanisms of our knowledge.”
Source: Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks and Privacy: Striking a Balance between Innovation, Knowledge, and Ethics in the Digital Age
“We cannot trust anything Trump says. He will look at Venezuela and use the crisis there to divert resources from Europe. He is setting up Europe to fail. Trump has too many pro-Russian people around him. This is not fully understood. I hope to be wrong about this, but I have to go with what I have heard behind closed doors.”
“We cannot trust in our own strength, but only in Jesus and in his mercy.”
“We cannot turn back the clock and relive cherished pastimes. We move beyond our origins. A person must make their way in an evolving social, political, and economic world order. We must not be too quick writing off the influence of our prior experiences, because the long tentacles the past remain vibrant strands within us. While the past does not cast our future in stone, its durable mold shapes our present. The ingrained strumming of our personal histories, sentimental or otherwise, also portents what might come along in our future.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.”
“We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.”
“We cannot ultimately specify the grounds (either metaphysical or logical or empirical) upon which we hold that our knowledge is true. Being committed to such grounds, dwelling in them, we are projecting ourselves to what we believe to be true from or through these grounds. We cannot therefore see what they are. We cannot look at them because we are looking with them.”
Source: Meaning
“We cannot underestimate the power of love in our lives. Only those who have been there will truly understand your feelings.”
“We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.”
Source: A Way in the World: A Sequence
“We cannot understand our humanity just by studying individuals.”
“We cannot understand the meaning of many trials; God does not explain them. To explain a trial would be to destroy its object, which is that of calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience.”
“We cannot understand the meaning of many trials; God does not explain them. To explain a trial would be to destroy its object, which is that of calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience. If we knew why the Lord sent us this or that trial, it would thereby cease to be a trial either of faith or of patience.”
“We cannot understand what happens in the universe. What is glorious in it is united with what is full of horror. What is full of meaning is united to what is senseless. The spirit of the universe is at once creative and destructive — it creates while it destroys and destroys while it creates, and therefore it remains to us a riddle. And we must inevitably resign ourselves to this.”
Source: Albert Schweitzer's Ethical Vision: A Sourcebook
“We cannot understand. The best is perhaps what we understand least.”
Source: A Grief Observed
“We cannot unthink unless we are insane.”
“We cannot unweave, and remake. For chance and choice happen. They coincide, they coalesce, they mix, and then their joint outcome grows as hard and as fixed as cement. Like a fossil in stone, it hardens, in its own indissoluble, immutable shape.”
Source: The Sea Lady
“We cannot use a double standard for measuring our own and other people's policies. Our demands for democratic practices in other lands will be no more effective than the guarantees of those practiced in our own country.”
“We cannot use electric lights and radios and, in the event of illness, avail ourselves of modern medical and clinical means and at the same time believe in the spirit and wonder world of the New Testament.”
“We cannot use jihadists because it's like shooting yourself in the foot.”
“We cannot use our thoughts and feelings as a standard: only God’s Word is the test.”