Inadequate Quotes

228 Inadequate quotes by 198 unique authors

The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand… — C.S. Lewis
If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you are conventionally held… — Bertrand Russell
How is it, that for many of us, being a good Christian is nothing more than being a good person? The entire focus of our… — Erwin McManus
Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all. — Patricia A. McKillip
I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes… — May Sarton
it was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials. — John Steinbeck
She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken. And since… — John Steinbeck
I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our… — Albert Einstein
One can never really give a proof of the reality of anything; reality is not something open to proof, it is something established. It is… — Simone Weil
I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever… — Margaret Atwood
A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence. — Wendell Berry
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break… — John Adams
I don't feel stupid, just inadequate. After three years of studying the law, I'm very much aware of how little I know. — John Grisham
I don't think much new ever happens. Most of us spend our days the same way people spent their days in the year 1000: walking… — George Saunders
It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite… — Virginia Woolf
It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world… — Michel Houellebecq
the people who run our cities dont understand graffiti because they think nothing has the right to exist unless it makes a profit... the people… — Banksy
Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people hated, people loved;… — Salman Rushdie
I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage,… — Carl Jung
Atheism and agnosticism signify the rejection of certain images and concepts of God or of truth, which are historically conditioned and therefore inadequate. Atheism is… — Bede Griffiths
And Grace calls out, 'You are not just a disillusioned old man who may die soon, a middle-aged woman stuck in a job and desperately… — Brennan Manning
Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If so, it was… — Jonathan Stroud
I know that sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings. They see themselves… — Eldridge Cleaver
I am sorry the only outlet for her troubled mind was in clumsy foreplay with an inadequate partner." He threw the rest of her sandwich… — Jennifer Armintrout

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