W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We do not know whether Jewish manuscripts were usually made by Jewish artists to order in Christian workshops, but they were certainly made in the styles locally current in their countries of adoption.”
Source: The illuminated manuscript
“We do not know whether there are extra dimensions or multiverse. Let's go forward with the possible ideas that come out of the mathematics. It's hard for us to imagine a universe that would have no time at all.”
“We do not know whether this universe is infinite, but we know very well that the imagination power of art is infinite!”
“We do not know which of our silver products will be judged as gold by our successors, nor does it matter.”
“We do not know why things happen as they do! But can trust He who knows all things, thy Divine Being,God.”
“We do not know why we are born into the world, but we can try to find out what sort of a world it is - at least in its physical aspects.”
“We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.”
“We do not know. We can only guess.”
Source: The Logic of Scientific Discovery
“We do not lack devices for measuring these miserable days of ours, in which it should be our pleasure that they be not frittered away without leaving behind any memory of ourselves in the mind of men.”
“We do not lack strength so much as the will to use it; and very often our imagining that things are impossible is nothing but an excuse of our own contriving, to reconcile ourselves to our own idleness.”
“We do not lack the technology to solve our crises. We lack the courage to value life more than profit.”
“We do not learn by experience, but by our capacity for experience.”
“We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.”
“We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it.”
Source: Word and Object
“We do not learn for the benefit of anyone, we learn to unlearn ignorance.”
“We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.”
“We do not learn so much by our successes as we learn by failures - our own and others! Especially if we see the failures properly corrected.”
Source: Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings, 1939-1949
“We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection.”
“We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.”
Source: Five Great Dialogues of Plato: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo
“We do not legislate for possibility. We legislate for control.”
Source: A Signal Through Time
“We do not like final knowledge, because knowledge, Phaedo, has no dignity or
severity: it knows, understands, forgives, without attitude; it is sympathetic to the
abyss, it is the abyss. Therefore we deny it and instead seek beauty, simplicity,
greatness and severity, of objectivity and form. But form and objectivity, Phaedo,
lead the noble one to intoxication and desire, to horrible emotional transgressions
rejected by his beautiful severity, lead to the abyss. Us poets, I say, it leads there,
for we are unable to elevate ourselves, instead we can only transgress.”
Source: Death in Venice
“We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“We do not like the truth because it is simple, we do not want the truth because it is hard, and we do not trust the truth because it is free.
Perhaps because many are idealists and publishing is so frustrating, writers are particularly vulnerable to believing in those who offer hope in exchange for cash. Writers know life is tough and we all want to think of an easier way. Maybe for a rare few, there is. If you count on that, you are a chump and somebody is going to take your money and break your heart.”
Source: 78 Reasons Why Your Book May Never Be Published and 14 Reasons Why It Just Might
“We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing to think that we suffer because we are fools; yet, taking mankind in the mass, that is the truth.”
Source: Ladislas Reymont: Romain Rolland ; Bertrand Russell
“We do not like to praise, and seldom praise anyone without self-interest.”
“We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.”
Source: The Journals
“We do not live by what is possessed but by what is promised.”
“We do not live in a centred space any more, but have to create our own centres.”
“We do not live in a revolutionary time. People are not prepared to contest power.”
“We do not live in a world that mainly suffers bad policies due to lack of ideas about better ones, or lack of elegant explanations supporting good policies, but one that suffers bad policies due to system and meta-system level incentives.”
“We do not live in a zoo so we will not act like it as a neighborhood, in order to be a great neighborhood each of us needs to do our part and start acting like it”
“We do not live in several different, or even two different, worlds, a mental world and a physical world, a scientific world and a world of common sense. Rather, there is just one world; it is the world we all live in, and we need to account for how we exist as part of it.”
“We do not live life as it is.
We live life as we believe it to be. Change the belief,
and the world changes with it.”
Source: Consciousness Rising
“We do not live on the Earth, we are a part of how the Earth lives.”
“We do not live so that we can eat, nor do we just eat so that we can live. Life is worth living in and of itself. Life cannot be satisfied when it is lived out as a consuming entity. When it is filled by that which satisfies a hunger that is both physical and spiritual in a mutuality that sustains both without violation of either, only then can life be truly fulfilling.”
Source: Zacharias 2 in 1-Jesus Among Other Gods & Deliver Us from Evil
“We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.”
“We do not look at our own faults; the eyes do not see themselves, they see the eyes of everybody else. We human beings are very slow to recognise our own weakness, our own faults, so long as we can lay the blame upon somebody else.”
Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge
“We do not look for compromise; rather, we seek to resolve the conflict to everyone's complete satisfaction.”
“We do not look for reason for logic in the passionate entreaties of those who are sick unto death; we are stung with the recollection of a thousand slighted opportunities of fulfilling the wishes of those who will soon pass away from among us: and do they ask us for the future happiness of our lives, we lay it at their feet, and will it away from us.”
Source: Norte e Sul: North and South: Edição bilíngue português - inglês
“We do not look in great cities for our best morality.”
“We do not lose our friends when they die, we only lose sight of them.”
“We do not love anything more deeply than we love a story.”
“We do not love each other without changing each other.”
Source: And it was Good, Reflections on Beginnings
“We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.”
Source: Richard Prince
“We do not make beams from the hollow, decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the upsoaring tree in the full vigor of its sap.”
“We do not make friends with God; God makes friends with us, bringing us to know him by making his love known to us... The word know, when used of God in this way, is a sovereign-grace word, pointing to God's initiative in loving, choosing, redeeming, calling and preserving.”
Source: Knowing God
“We do not make hasty decisions but first wait to see in what direction the wind blows.”
Source: City of Lost Souls
“We do not make or create our souls, we just grow them up.”
Source: AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
“We do not make photographs with our cameras. We make them with our minds, with our hearts, with our ideas.”
“We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.”