#cannot

It is pretty clear that they are ineffective in stopping the course of thought at present, but they have not always been so in the past and we cannot be sure that they will not be so in the future. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#been #cannot #clear #course #future

We shall be forced to attempt planned and directed research employing hundreds of workers for many years, and this cannot be done without risking the loss of independence and originality. This is a serious and fundamental obstacle but it may be overcome in two ways. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#cannot #directed #done #employing #forced

An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#commitment #controlled #derive #economy #genuinely

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#alone #badly #be true #belongs #cannot

We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off. ↗

— Vinoba Bhave

#cannot #childhood #even #infancy #like

I cannot harness a horse. I am afraid of a cow. ↗

— Lyman Abbott

#am #cannot #cow #harness #horse

We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#become #cannot #child #conclusion #criminal

The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings. ↗

— Stella Adler

#actor #afford #cannot #choices #experience

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy. ↗

— Walter Anderson

#find #joy #love #neither #never

The Bible says that two cannot walk together unless they are agreed. ↗

— Peter Akinola

#bible #cannot #says #together #two