Inability Quotes

375 quotes by 344 authors

There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief. — Thomas Carlyle
One of the failings of ideologues is their inability to see that everyone else isn't necessarily an ideologue like them. — Josh Marshall
The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee. — Robert Falcon Scott
There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live ... — Octavian Paler
I think the New Bohemians' inability to say no was a big part of our problem. — Edie Brickell
An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity. — David Hare
That's the old ecological tale that explains humans' inability to fully appreciate global warming. To wit: if you drop a frog in a pan of… — Clive Thompson
Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
By 1948, the Italians had begun to pull themselves together, demonstrating once more their astonishing ability to cope with disaster which is so perfectly balanced… — Gore Vidal
The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room. — Blaise Pascal
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if… — Immanuel Kant
Hunger is the worst form of deprivation of a human being. Although inability to access food is the immediate cause of hunger, the real cause… — Muhammad Yunus
Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. Envy of others comes from comparing… — Diogenes
Health and disease don't just happen to us. They are active processes issuing from inner harmony or disharmony, profoundly affected by our states of consciousness,… — Marilyn Ferguson
The real problem has to do with the inability by people to admit that a position they've held a long time might be wrong. That's… — Jack McDevitt
What do we really want to say to the world? Three main themes. The inability to find completion in our modern society, the inability to… — Jon Foreman
The creativity of people on the schizophrenic end of the human continuum is a creativity that springs from the inability to accept the standardized cultural… — Ernest Becker
It's not about the fish; it's not about the pollution; it's not about the climate change. It's about us and our greed and our need… — Jeremy Jackson
The inability to experience regret is one of the diagnostic characteristics of sociopaths. — Kathryn Schulz
I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy--that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk. — Gerd Gigerenzer

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