Incapable Quotes

437 quotes by 351 authors

The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency to… — Karen Horney
Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness. — John Sterling
Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and… — Anne Bradstreet
People who create things nowadays can expect to be prosecuted by highly moralistic people who are incapable of creating anything. There is no way to… — Joseph Sobran
Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to… — Harry Browne
In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
How is it that there are so many minds that are incapable of understanding mathematics? ... the skeleton of our understanding, ... and actually they… — Henri Poincare
Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught, except… — Charles Darwin
Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance… — George Santayana
This great misfortune, to be incapable of solitude. — Jean de la Bruyere
Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions. — James Callaghan
Science is wonderful at destroying metaphysical answers, but incapable of providing substitute ones. Science takes away foundations without providing a replacement. Whether we want to… — Hilary Putnam
The wonders of the music of the future will be of a higher & wider scale and will introduce many sounds that the human ear… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only… — Joseph Joubert
I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which a man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot… — Barbara Jordan
If you have no conditions you can enjoy life infinitely. If you have conditions, because of them you become incapable. — Rajneesh
Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government. — Thomas Jefferson
What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more rational… — Norman Cousins
Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For years I supported capital punishment, but I have come to believe that our criminal justice system is incapable of adequately distinguishing between the innocent… — James Frey

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