W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We must know where to doubt, where to feel certain, where to submit. He who does not do so, understands not the force of reason.”
Source: Pascal's Pensees
“We must know who we are, so we can know what we want, so we don't end up wanting the wrong thing and get it and realize we don't want it, because by then it's too late. We are powerful enough that we can manifest anything into our lives. To use this power with great care and love is the secret to living a happy life.”
“We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere.”
Source: Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious
“We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.”
“We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.”
“We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.”
“We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature, or go insane.”
“We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us.”
Source: Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
“We must lay to, if you please, and keep a bright lookout. It's trying on a man, I know. It would be pleasanter to come to blows. But there's no help for it till we know our men. Lay to, and whistle for a wind, that's my view.”
Source: Treasure Island
“We must lead in a different way... We must have an active president, who gives strong direction and works with the government for its implementation.”
“We must learn a new modesty. We have stormed the heavens, but succeeded only in building fog upon fog, a mist which will not support anybody who earnestly desires to stand upon it. What is valid seems so insignificant that it may be seriously doubted whether anlaysis is at all possible.”
“We must learn and then teach our children that niceness does not equal goodness. Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait. People seeking to control others almost always present the image of a nice person in the beginning.”
Source: The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence
“We must learn as long as we live.”
“We must learn by experience to avoid either trains of thought or social situations which for us (not necessarily for everyone) lead to temptations. Like motoring-don't wait till the last moment before you put on the brakes but put them on, gently and quietly, while the danger is still a good way off.”
“We must learn, child, not to fear anything that nature brings.”
Source: Till We Have Faces
“We must learn from Mary, and we must imitate her unconditional readiness to receive Christ in her life.”
“We must learn from misfortune the means of future strength.”
“We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage.”
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.”
Source: Lyrical and Critical Essays
“We must learn how to think like the planet.”
“We must learn not to give up when requirements are not met or when commitments are broken. To do so is a refusal to allow mistakes to be corrected and a demonstration of an unwillingness to forgive yourself or anyone else who needs forgiveness.”
Source: Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You're Going Through
“We must learn not to take traditional morals too seriously. And it is just because even the least dogmatic of religions tends to associate itself with some kind of unalterable moral tradition, that there can be no truce between science and religion.”
“We must learn not to weep and to love what we have left.”
“We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.”
“We must learn that competence is better than extravagance, that worth is better than wealth, that the golden calf we have worshiped has no more brains than that one of old which the Hebrews worshiped. So beware of money and of money's worth as the supreme passion of the mind. Beware of the craving for enormous acquisition.”
“We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.”
Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings
“We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.”
“We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition.”
Source: Strength to Love
“We must learn the difficult lesson that the future of Mankind will only be tolerable when our course, in world affairs as in others, is based upon justice and law rather than the threat of naked power.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“We must learn to accept ourselves in the painful experiment of living. We must embrace the spiritual adventure of becoming human, moving through the many stages that lie between birth and death.”
“We must learn to acknowledge that the creation is full of mystery; we will never entirely understand it. We must abandon arrogance and stand in awe. We must recover the sense of the majesty of creation, and the ability to be worshipful in its presence. For I do not doubt that it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.”
Source: The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry
“We must learn to apply all that we know so that we can attract all that we want.”
“We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race.”
“We must learn to be honest with ourselves, and know our shortcomings. We will acquire cohesion but we will pay dearly for being a slow pupil.”
Source: Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters
“We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend.”
Source: Freedom's Battle: Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation
“We must learn to be with ourselves before
we can be with anyone else.”
Source: Hey Humanity
“We must learn to believe in the transformative power of imagination as a response to our vulnerability and helplessness, which can strike unexpectedly in life's challenging moments. ("Check, and mate")”
“We must learn to cast off our anxieties because we have so many of them. The world destroys spiritual life by generating constant anxiety. Jesus said that the life of the gospel is choked out by the cares of this world. We know this to be true yet we are more chained and tethered to the world than ever before in the human race.”
“We must learn to celebrate, not fight over, our differences. A pluralistic society requires no less, and the world will be a vastly better place if we can find a way to embrace this simple truth.”
Source: Betrayal of Justice
“We must learn to confide in feelings of discomfort, knowing that such emotion precedes expansion in our lives.”
“We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness”
Source: Letters to August Roeckel, Translated by Eleanor C. Sellar
“We must learn to discriminate between what brings us peace and what does not.”
Source: A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life
“We must learn to do economic work from all who know how, no matter who they are. We must esteem them as teachers, learning from them respectfully and conscientiously. We must not pretend to know when we do not know.”
Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung
“We must learn to do more with temptation than just bear it - we must learn to use it. The secret of using temptation, and turning it to our advantage, is one of life's greatest secrets. Once we have learned it we are unbeatable and unbreakable.”
“We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say?”
Source: Montaigne's Essays and Selected Writings
“We must learn to give ourselves permission to blunder, to fail, and to make fools of ourselves every day for the rest of our lives. We do so in any case.”
Source: Even a Stone Can be a Teacher: Learning and Growing from the Experiences of Everyday Life
“We must learn to help those who deserve it, not just those who need it. Life responds to deserve not need”
“We must learn to lean upon ourselves; we must learn to plan and execute business enterprises of our own; we must learn to venture our pennies if we would gain dollars.”
Source: T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator: A Collection of Writings, 1880-1928
“We must learn to let go, to give up, to make room for the things we have prayed for and desired.”
Source: Dynamics for Living: A Topical Compilation of Essential Fillmore Teachings
“We must learn to let the flow manifest itself where it will.....not where we will it.”