Top 430 We Cannot Quotes

Words matter. These are the best We Cannot Quotes from famous people such as Galileo Galilei, Gordon B. Hinckley, Gian Carlo Menotti, Michelangelo Antonioni, Ajay Piramal, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
Galileo Galilei
We cannot be unclean and expect the help of the Almighty.
Gordon B. Hinckley
The Italians are very unmusical. If I go to a Protestant church in London or Amsterdam or listen to a black choir, I hear four-part harmony. Italians could never do that. In Italy, we all have to sing the melody because we cannot harmonise.
Gian Carlo Menotti
I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.
Michelangelo Antonioni
We take dispassionate view of our investments. Does it mean that we are looking out to monetise the investment? That is not correct. But if we get an offer that we cannot refuse, as I say, then it is not that we are not, that we will still hold on to the investment.
Ajay Piramal
Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent.
Stokely Carmichael
Both the country, and my party, are beset with division. We cannot bring the country back together unless the party of government is united, and the party cannot unite if it is led from its fringes.
James Cleverly
We cannot choose one desktop over the other – Gnome or KDE – because there’s users for both code bases.
Miguel de Icaza
Four men are missing; R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance; whether killed or lost, we cannot tell.
Francis Parkman
The reconnection of society, economy and ethics is a project we cannot postpone.
Michael D. Higgins
All I can say is that we cannot shut our eyes to Western culture if that is not going to suit ours.
P. T. Usha
One of the most important things that I did to turn my life around was to realize and to accept that from this minute, that’s all we have. Everything that happened behind us we cannot change so you might as well look to the future.
Nick Carter
We cannot fight new wars with old weapons.
Vinoba Bhave
The rule of law, democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of expression – we cannot take them for granted. They do not exist willy-nilly across the world; they are very rare.
Daniel Lubetzky
Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
Jean Paul
The problem for many people is that we cannot point to the underlying biological bases of most psychiatric disorders. In fact, we are nowhere near understanding them as well as we understand disorders of the liver or the heart.
Eric Kandel
Our priority must be to build a path towards balancing the budget, and we cannot tolerate growing deficits.
Mike Crapo
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.
Dorothy Height
If we have an atom that is in an excited state and so is going to emit a photon, we cannot say when it will emit the photon. It has a certain amplitude to emit the photon at any time, and we can predict only a probability for emission; we cannot predict the future exactly.
Richard P. Feynman
In fact, even the current administration now is releasing recent reports indicating that climate change is real, that global warming is occurring, that it is heavily influenced by man-made objects and that it is something we cannot ignore any longer.
Ron Kind
When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.
Angela Merkel
Why we cannot build a system like El Al to be proactive. Why do we have only to react? The shoe bomber – reaction? Take off your shoes. The Nigerian – the body scanner is a result of the Nigerian guy.
Isaac Yeffet
We cannot, any of us, do all the things of which mankind stand in need; we must have fellow-labourers.
William Godwin
As American freemen, we cannot but sympathize in all efforts to extend the blessings of civil and political liberty, but at the same time, we are warned by the admonitions of history and the voice of our own beloved Washington to abstain from entangling alliances with foreign nations.
Zachary Taylor
We cannot ever accept a government that thinks they can get away with tiny targets on climate which they then don’t achieve.
Elizabeth May
We can learn something from Marxist thinking, but we cannot follow Marxist methods.
Sun Yat-sen
We cannot have communion with Christ till we are in union with Him; and we cannot have communion with the Church till we are in vital union with it.
Charles Spurgeon
I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans’ natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.
Vernor Vinge
I don’t think we have a right to enjoy our neuroses; in fact, I believe that we have a duty not to. But we cannot walk away from ourselves. Who else is there to become?
Colm Toibin
Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.
Gabriela Mistral
Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God,

Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.
Adam Clarke
We cannot keep the Jewish state without being a democratic state.
Reuven Rivlin
We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.
Christopher Alexander
Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.
Ruth Hubbard
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
Albert Einstein
In difficult times, it’s important to speak up. We cannot change the past, but we can impact the future.
Mark Parker
We cannot deny that 80 or even 90 percent of the spiritual treasures from the past 3,000 years have come from Europe. There is no other Greek theatre anywhere else in the world. There is no other Shakespeare, Dante or Cervantes.
Ismail Kadare
We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.
Stephen Hawking
I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.
Dave Barry
We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction. Because this country that God has blessed us with, it is worth fighting for.
Marco Rubio
If we want to impact hundreds – or millions – of people, we have to do things differently. If we look at the problem as an infrastructural problem, we cannot make an impact because it requires a lot of effort. But when we convert this problem into a knowledge problem, suddenly the problem is manageable.
Naveen Jain
As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.
John Lancaster Spalding
We cannot rely on imported fuels forever, and we aim to replace traditional oil and gas boiler systems with products which are much more efficient.
Martin Naughton
We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.
Harold Bloom
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James Baldwin
Science is objective. And in my view we cannot take any experimental results seriously except in the light of good explanations of them.
David Deutsch
We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.
George Berkeley
We live in a world where adolescents and young people, especially from key populations, are still left behind. We cannot fail to address their needs.
Pia Wurtzbach
To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
I will not allow my experience to scare off other young women or girls from running for office. For the sake of all of us we cannot let that happen.
Katie Hill
What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?
Marquis De Custine
For my art, there is a common theme most of the time: it is using the things we can see to search for the world we cannot see.
Cai Guo-Qiang
We cannot stop what we cannot see.
Michael McCaul
We cannot ‘fix’ the police without a revolution of values and radical change to the basic structure of our society.
Michelle Alexander
We cannot hide from history.
Raphael Warnock
Climate change, demographics, water, food, energy, global health, women’s empowerment – these issues are all intertwined. We cannot look at one strand in isolation. Instead, we must examine how these strands are woven together.
Ban Ki-moon
We cannot afford to burn the vast majority of known fossil fuel reserves.
Caroline Lucas
As Chomsky says here, clearly and in depth, the American empire is doing all it can to consolidate its system of domination. And we cannot allow them to do that. We cannot allow world dictatorship to be consolidated.
Hugo Chavez
We will not have Americans telling us what to do… We cannot be brought to our knees.
Alexander Lukashenko