Incompetent Quotes · Page 3

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

— John Maynard Keynes

as though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family

— Jane Smiley

I feel incompetent to perform duties...which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

— Andrew Johnson

Incompetent government embraces hiring quotas, thus furthering their incompetence.

— James Cook

“it’s a law of the universe that 87 percent of all people in all professions are incompetent.”

— John Gardner

I have no athletic skills whatsoever. I'm just literally incompetent.

— James Gray

If I am incompetent, I am useless, the people of India will see that.

— Rahul Gandhi

I've been told that I'm incompetent, socially retarded, maladjusted. I still know that I couldn't function in reality. Los Angeles is a…

— Diablo Cody

I do bits about dating but mainly about what I did and how incompetent I am, not any genuine people writing to…

— James Veitch

“Incompetent people are, at most, 1% of the problem. The other 99% are good people trying to do a good job who…

— Lucien Leape

I began a conversation with the heads of our esteemed department of political science, and instantly I concluded, 'Hopelessly incompetent!

— Ira Carmen

If there's anything I hate more than a stupid action comedy, it's an incompetent stupid action comedy. It's not so bad it's…

— Roger Ebert

I have very little patience for ignorant, incompetent people who don’t care that they’re ignorant and incompetent.

— Tim Leffel

What worries me is that we are increasingly enmeshed in incompetent systems, that is, systems that exhibit pathological behaviour but cant fix…

— John Naughton

If you look at the Middle East, it's a blow up, it's a total disaster. We have an incompetent president [Barack Obama].

— Donald Trump

The best pictures are always those one dreams of when one is smoking a pipe in bed, but which never get done.…

— Vincent Van Gogh

So long as men and women are free, no one is safe. People will be in danger because others can't operate vehicles…

— Jack McDevitt

Following is one of the most underrated aspects of leadership… I have seen many a good [military unit] underachieve, because someone...thought the…

— William H. McRaven

“The incompetent always present thmeselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as devout, usurers as benefactors, the small minded as patriots,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

About Mike the construction worker, friend of Roark: "He worshipped expertness of any kind. He loved his work passionately and had no…

— Ayn Rand

Young people have this almost romantic attachment to civil rights, liberties, emancipating people from oppression, etc. The idea that such oppression exists…

— Rush Limbaugh

There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most…

— Martin Van Buren

“The incompetent always present themselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as excessively devout, users as benefactors, the small minded as…

— Carlos Zafron

When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not…

— Cyril Connolly

It's a peculiar thing about liberals. When it comes to middle-class people who are fully capable of caring for themselves, liberals seek…

— Mona Charen

A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore! Robert A.

— Robert Heinlein

The more incompetent one feels, the more eager he is to fight.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Go the extra mile. It makes your boss look like an incompetent slacker.

— Stephen Hawking

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

— Edith Sitwell

“A woefully corrupt and incompetent government is only a problem to the taxpayer.”

— Lee Broad

“To proceed, I imagine life as a film being screened by an incompetent projectionist.”

— Matthew Belmonte

Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him.

— Douglas Adams

“Those who are weakest often tend to blame others for their own incompetence.”

— Gabriella Geach

“So you're going to die an incompetent hero?' 'I'm going to die trying.”

— Nicola Yoon

Plague might be a social incompetent, but he was unquestionably a genius.

— Anonymous

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.

— John W. Gardner

To an incompetent judge I must not lie, but I may be silent; to a competent I must answer.

— John Donne

I think President Obama is weak, bored with the office, and an incompetent leader.

— Richard Grenell

In so many areas of life, I'm a spaz and incompetent.

— Dave Matthews