Famous quotes containing the word what:
“To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us from which we appropriate what we can and what is suitable to us.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“For man is but the servant and interpreter of nature: what he does and what he knows is only what he has observed of nature’s order in fact or in thought; beyond this he knows nothing and can do nothing.”
—Francis Bacon (1560–1626)
“Why, what could she have done, being what she is?
Was there another Troy for her to burn?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)