Incapable Quotes

437 Incapable quotes by 351 unique authors

Simply notice that you're aware. At any given moment, you can choose to follow the chain of thoughts, emotions, and sensations that reinforce a perception… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a General Government necessary for… — Benjamin Franklin
Though, when a people shall have become incapable of governing themselves and fit for a master, it is of little consequence from what quarter he… — George Washington
When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and… — Elena Kagan
In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a… — Wesley Morris
Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he… — Mark Twain
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's… — Herman Melville
What, then, shall a Catholic Christian do ... if some novel contagion attempt to infect no longer a small part of the Church alone but… — Vincent of Lerins
Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
...perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the fact that… — Sigmund Freud
The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities… — Eric Temple Bell
Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting… — Mary Astell
What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of… — George Washington
No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or… — Hu Shih
I've always been incapable of accepting fate, and I've always refused to die, and that has helped me to survive. — Walter Bonatti
When you are gentled and quieted in your heart, you are incapable of relating to disappointment, incapable of feeling sorry for your self. — John de Ruiter
We are breeding creatures incapable of surviving in any place other than the most artificial settings. We have focused the awesome power of modern genetic… — Jonathan Safran Foer
I refuse to accept the idea that the 'is-ness' of a man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the 'ought-ness' that… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let your attacker worry about his life. Don't hold back. Strike no more after he is incapable of further action, but see that he is… — Jeff Cooper
Peoples have come to experience that political structures and divisions of power are not immutable. Nor will they perceive the distribution of wealth and resources… — Bob Hawke
The vast majority of the population seems to look down their noses upon self-reliance as some quaint dusty relic, entertained only by the hyperparanoid or… — Cody Lundin
Film as dream, film as music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight… — Ingmar Bergman
God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be. — Oswald Chambers
Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of… — Aristotle
To put it bluntly, research shows that we can’t multitask. We are biologically incapable of processing attention-rich inputs simultaneously. — John Medina

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