We, ignorant of ourselves, / Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers / Deny us for our good; so find we profit / By losing of our prayers. Ant. and Cleo., ii. 1.
We in turn / Shall one day be Time's ancients, and inspire / The wiser, higher race, which yet shall sing; / Because to sing is human, and high thought / Grows rhythmic ere its close. Lewis Morris.
We inherit, not life only, but all the garniture and form of life; and work, and speak, and even think and feel, as our fathers, and primeval grandfathers, from the beginning, have given it us. Carlyle.
We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith, by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. Could they be explained, they would cease to be mysteries; and it has been well said that a thing is not necessarily against reason because it happens to be above it. Colton.
We keep but what we give, / And only daily 5 dying may we live. Lewis Morris.
We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases. Goethe.
We know better than we do. Emerson.
We know God easily, provided we do not constrain ourselves to define him. Joubert.
We know not oftentimes what we are able to do, but temptations shows us what we are. Thomas à Kempis.
We know truth when we see it, let sceptic 10 and scoffer say what they choose. Emerson.