Capitalism is being attacked not because it is inefficient or misgoverned but because it is cynical. And indeed a society based on the assertion that private vices become public benefits cannot endure, no matter how impeccable its logic, no matter how great its benefits.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

BoP consumer problems cannot be solved with old technologies.

We cannot use Western models of protocols for research and development. We should guard against being bogged down with clinical trials. [http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=333154&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/]

Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.

The light of the stars travels millions of miles to reach the earth, but it cannot reach our hearts — so many millions of miles further off are we!

Only when the true ends of society have nothing to do with the sublime does “culture” become necessary as a veneer to cover over the void. Culture can at best appreciate the monuments of earlier faith; it cannot produce them.

It [thought] is a mechanical thing and can solve only mechanical problems. But you want to use it to understand something living; that is the problem. It is not intended for that. Human problems are something living. You cannot use thinking to solve those problems.

Sengcan: I am riddled with sickness. Please absolve me of my sin.
Huike: Bring your sin here and I will absolve you.
Sengcan [after a long pause]: When I look for my sin, I cannot find it.
Huike: I have absolved you. You should live by the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha.

Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience. Computers simply cannot do that.

We need to address climate change, we need to limit the temperature rise globally to the maximum extent but we cannot do it at the expense of keeping people in poverty and stopping their economic development.

Sometimes I was sad, sometimes happy. Just on and off. Always I felt welcome. It's just, you know, sometimes as a human being, you cannot always be happy. You do good things, you do bad things, people talk. [https://playersbio.com/caster-semenya-quotes/]

You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog.

One cannot grow fine flowers in a thin soil.

[Comparing Ronald Reagan's Cabinet to Star Wars] There's Henry Kissinger as Yoda, "Must now cannot see understanding that I be here for you. I will show you now, Nicaragua, Cambodia, Nicaragua, Cambodia, shhh. Must later understand!

We cannot help loving what is beautiful.