W Quotes
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“We know only a single science, the science of history. History can be contemplated from two sides, it can be divided into the history of nature and the history of mankind. However, the two sides are not to be divided off; as long as men exist the history of nature and the history of men are mutually conditioned.”
“We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All the same, we are not often sad.”
Source: All quiet on the western front
“We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.”
Source: Interior Castle
“We know only what we do, what we make, what we construct; and all that we make, all that we construct, are realities. I call them images, not in Plato's sense (namely that they are only reflections of reality), but I hold that these images are the reality itself and that there is no reality beyond this reality except when in our creative process we change the images: then we have created new realities.”
“We know others to the extent that we know ourselves.”
“we know our end
A packet of worm-seed, a garden of spent tissues.”
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
“We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.”
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
“we know our inaction and inertia
will be the inheritance of the next generation
Our blunders become their burdens
But one thing is certain:
If we merge mercy with might,
and might with right,
then love becomes our legacy
and change our children’s birthright
So let us leave behind a country
better than the one we were left with”
Source: Call Us What We Carry
“We know our job. We are grinders and we are physical and we need to make their (defense) look back over their shoulders.”
“We know our lands have now become more valuable. The white people think we do not know their value; but we know that the land is everlasting, and the few goods we receive for it are soon worn out and gone.”
“We know our neighbors - so far as we have the right to know them. We hear of their joys and their sorrows, and hasten to make them ours so far as we may. Life in a small town is like a layer cake. One gets the whole of it, frosted top, lemon filling and all.”
“We know ourselves very little. We are not at the center of ourselves, but instead like the Earth in the Milky Way, and the Milky Way in the universe; far out on a distant edge, hearing a little of what is transpiring.”
“We know over very national survival is at stake; and we believe that we should support our troops, yes, and work for an outcome that results in victory.”
“We know people and their nature… pushed and pushed and pushed… until finally… push back… it will happen… but until then, we milk the cow as long as we can… you see we want to play both sides. Have the government develop partners in Russia, China, Africa, while entertaining the Americans before their empire crumbles and they run to the Arabs… even in the idealism of a multi-polar world, there is still plenty of money to be made along the way… is there not?”
Source: Gulab
“We know people by their stories: their history, their habits, their secrets, their triumphs and failures. We know them by what they do. We want to know mountains too, but they’ve got no story. So we do the next best thing. We throw ourselves onto them and make the stories happen.”
Source: Measure of a Mountain: Beauty and Terror on Mount Rainier
“We know perfectly well that neither love nor peace of mind can be bought with any currency.”
“We know photographers make frames, but we deeply believe they can also create frameworks.”
“We know quite a bit about Alfred Russel Wallace, one of the great figures of modern science. But we know relatively little about Ali, Wallace’s faithful companion who supported him during much of his eight-year sojourn in the Malay Archipelago in the mid-19th century.”
Source: "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion
“We know Saddam Hussein possesses chemical weapons - he has for nearly 20 years as we know only so well from his use of them against his own people and the Iranians. He has deadly stockpiles of biological weapons.”
“We know screwups are an essential part of making something good. That's why our goal is to screw up as fast as possible.”
“We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren't good. Drinking's not good. Some would say milk's not good.”
“We know so little about each other. We lie mostly submerged, like ice floes, with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white.”
Source: Amsterdam, Or, The Spoiler: A Comi-tragedy
“We know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream.”
“We know so little about the future that to worry about it would be the height of foolishness.”
“We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile.”
“we know so little, we know so much, we don't know enough.”
Source: On Love
“We know so little. Our judgment is so limited. We judge the Lord's ways from our own narrow view.”
“We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.”
“We know something about a system of explosive atoms whirling separately in a space which is immense compared to their own dimension. Yet we do not know why they should appear to us a solid piece of radiant mineral. And if there is an onlooker who at one glance can have the view of the immense time and space occupied by innumerable human individuals engaged in evolving a common history, the positive truth of their solidarity will be concretely evident to him and not the negative fact of their separateness.”
Source: The Religion of Man
“We know something about reality, my father and I. And I bet you know it, too. Is it that reality is too much? Too painful, too limited, too restrictive of joy or opportunity? No,' she says. 'I think it's that reality is not enough.”
Source: The Immortalists
“We know something of the cost of that war. We were in it from December seventh, '41, till August of '45. Ever since that time, we have been waging peace. It has had its ups and downs just as the war did.”
“We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition whose accuracy has been repeatedly questioned.”
“We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.”
“We know story collections end when they end, as well - the pages serving as a countdown - but nevertheless the standard story anthology hews closer to what makes being human so hard: it reminds you with each story how quickly everything we are, everything we call our lives can change, can be upended, can disappear. Never to return.”
“We know sugar increases insulin, but even by itself sugar is bad for you.”
“We know summer is the height of of being alive. We don't believe in God or the prospect of an afterlife mostly, so we know that we're only given eighty summers or so per lifetime, and each one has to be better then the last, has to encompass a trip to that arts center up at Bard, a seemingly mellow game of badminton over at some yahoo's Vermont cottage, and a cool, wet, slightly dangerous kayak trip down an unforgiving river. Otherwise, how would you know that you have lived your summertime best? What is you missed out on some morsel of shaded nirvana?”
“We know taxes slow down economic growth, so if you add a carbon tax you have to also minus other taxes. You can't take more money out of people's pockets. I don't think you can build a consensus in this country about environmental policy if you're going to make people poor.”
“We know that a government shutdown is gonna blamed on the Republicans no matter who, what, when, where, why. You want to give the media ammo going into 2018, how the Republicans hate government, the Republicans hate you, the Republicans want you dead, the Republicans want your kids dead, the Republicans want you breathing dirty air, poisoned water, and all this stuff, a shutdown in September, it would actually be in October, because that's - I don't mean to pick hairs here, but a shutdown would be in October if it happens.”
“We know that a large majority of the Australian society is extremely comfortable with a multicultural society, that we accept that living in a democracy means having a freedom to practise your religion within the limits of the law.”
“We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.”
“We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.”
Source: Jimmy Carter
“We know that a ready amnesty tends to be an invitation to more illegal entries.”
“We know that a statement proved to be good must be oorrect. New thoughts are constantly obtaining the floor. These two theories - that all is matter, or that all is Mind-will dispute the ground, until one is acknowledged to be the victor. Discussing his campaign, General Grant said: "I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer." Science says: All is Mind and Mind's idea. You must fight it out on this line. Matter can afford you no aid.”
Source: Science Et Santé
“We know that absolute, though partial, knowledge is possible through Christ.”
Source: Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate
“We know that absolute, though partial, knowledge is possible through Christ. We’re confident because we know Jesus Christ. Yes. He’s real and knowable. He provides true premises with which to understand the material observations.”
Source: Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate
“We know that acid rain has had no significant environmental effect on trees or forests in the United States... It is based on popular myths and half-baked theories.”
“We know that advanced economies with stable governments that borrow in their own currency are capable of running up very high levels of debt without crisis.”
“We know that African American students tend to be relational learners. It's about the relationships between a teacher and student. Students respond well to teachers they know, believe in them, care about them, but also who teach in a matter that elicits a more active approach to learning, rather than just sitting and listening. The research on this is strong and has been available for a long time, but it is not widely practiced. That's a huge obstacle.”
“We know that all must, in the end, stand by the side of the Divine. There is no escape from it, because that is His will.”
Source: Some Glimpses of Occultism: Ancient and Modern
“We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.”