There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.

Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.

If the civil society is not transparent, honest, and accountable, then you cannot be a champion of social justice.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow. But what you know today cannot affect what you did yesterday.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

The barrier of communication is terrible if you don't speak the language. You cannot reach a player with a translator.

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

We cannot afford to spend millions and millions over nuclear arms when there is poverty and unemployment all around us.

I cannot believe there is caste system in society; I cannot believe people are judged on the basis of their prosperity.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.

The world is getting smaller and smaller every day. We cannot find ourselves dependent on somebody who is untrustworthy.

You cannot hate the hate out of a person. You cannot beat the hate out of a person. But you can love it out of a person.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

Sustainability is a part of our 'rise' philosophy. You cannot rise if you take more from the community than you put back.

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

You can teach somebody how to be a brain surgeon, but you cannot teach them how to walk on a stage and make people laugh.

We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.

The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble.

You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.

I've managed to convince my wife that somewhere in the Bible it says, 'Man cannot have too many shotguns and fishing poles.'

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.

The early Celtic Christians called the Holy Spirit 'the wild goose.' And the reason why is they knew that you cannot tame him.

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

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