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Inhibition Quotes

12 quotes from 10 authors

Inhibition isn’t just a psychological term—it colors creativity, behavior, and culture. These 12 snippets, drawn from 10 perspectives, give a concise overview of how restraint manifests and why it matters, perfect for a fast‑read dive into the topic.

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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.

Walter Darby Bannard

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Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man

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“For tradition also and always means inhibition.”

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Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition,

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Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man, Inhibition, which does men great harm and great good. Inhibition attaches to poverty,…

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“The inhibition of an inhibitor leads to the activation of an inhibitor of an inhibitory pathway. This is the point where most…

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Inhibition is something I notice in hamstrung actors all the time. They can be wonderful up to a point and then become…

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“If I die on my way to the dance, it will be better than to survive having never lifted my feet.”

Agnostic Zetetic

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When I play at my best is when I play with the least amount of inhibition, when I think less.

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One of the chief inhibitions to human progress arises because of the extreme slowness with which the advances in knowledge become translated…

Robert Andrews Millikan

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Existence of an excited state is not a prerequisite for the production of inhibition; inhibition can exist apart from excitation no less…

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“My body is a political battlefield. It is a place of war, of death and suffering, of triumph and victory, of damage…

Agnostic Zetetic

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