Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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
Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms. — Arthur Erickson 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
ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity. — Ambrose Bierce 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
“incapacity for true dialogue implies an incapacity for tolerance, self-reflection and empathy.” — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity. — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Flaubert's famous sentence, "Madame Bovary, c'est moi" ("Madame Bovary, she is me"), in reality means, " Madame Bovary, c'est nous" ("Madame Bovary,… — Sophie Barthes Copy Share Image
Seemingly the most easy of crafts, drawing is the one which reveals most tellingly our incapacity to sustain true vision and our… — Rico Lebrun Copy Share Image
While I am proud of a number of accomplishments, there are real costs to being unreasonable. Long hours. Too little time with… — Eli Broad 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
Both strength of mind and body are necessary, strengths which in the last few months have deteriorated in me to the extent… — Pope Benedict XVI 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
Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . [It]… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
All warfare is based on deception. Therefore, when capable, feign incapacity; when active, inactivity. When near, make it appear that you are… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The Chinese tell time by 'The Year of the Horse' or 'The Year of the Dragon.' I tell time by 'The Year… — Earl Weaver Copy Share Image
The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of… — Muhammad Iqbal 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
We compromise ourselves the day we are born. If we are looking for the original sin, there it is- our incapacity to… — F. Sionil José 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
Incapacity to appreciate certain types of beauty may be the condition sine qua non for the appreciation of another kind; the greatest… — George Santayana 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
Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture… — Gerhard Richter 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
I do not accept the fact that conditions that prevent people from attaining their eternal destiny were born into them without any… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse. — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
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