Incapable Quotes

437 Incapable quotes by 351 unique authors

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
Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for other people's pain,… — Pope Francis
Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing to be numbered… — Plutarch
Even when we allow our imaginations to run wild on the joys of heaven, we find that our minds are incapable of conceiving what it… — Billy Graham
Consumer: A person who is capable of choosing a president but incapable of choosing a bicycle without help from a government agency. — Herbert Stein
Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he is… — Charles Grandison Finney
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and… — Walter Scott
Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information. — Thomas Paine
One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are… — John Berger
Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone.… — Andrea Dworkin
The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of… — Edgar Allan Poe

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