Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“incapacity for true dialogue implies an incapacity for tolerance, self-reflection and empathy.” — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“In fact the bare adjective "bad" hardly scratches the surface of the man's awesome incapacity.” — John Biggins Copy Share Image
The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people. — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will. — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you? — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
All of us wrestle with the angels of our inabilities all the time. We live in fear that our incapacities will be… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Closed some doors, not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they no longer lead somewhere. — Frenz Jeffrey Copy Share Image
Every profound dissatisfaction is of a religious nature: our failures derive from our incapacity to conceive of paradise and to aspire to… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am… — Edwin Booth Copy Share Image
The coward’s fear of death stems in large part from his incapacity to love anything but his own body. The inability to… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
The proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
He who wants to educate himself in Chess must evade what is dead in Chess... the habit of playing with inferior opponents;… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Carlyle, a man of strong words and attitudes, a rhetorician out of necessity, constantly aroused by the craving for a strong faithas… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This superficial blurring has something to do with the incapacity I have just mentioned. I can make no statement about reality clearer… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
It is the cult of self that is killing the United States. This cult has within it the classic traits of psychopaths:… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path—he does not mock and… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Lets build a monument for the veto. Lets build a monument for impotence and incapacity. — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“"The incapacity of sound sleep denotes a mind sorely wounded.” — Charles Brockden Brown Copy Share Image
Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
The price of training is always a certain trained incapacity: the more we know how to do something, the harder it is… — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is man’s leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Such immaturity… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
