Incapacity Quotes

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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. — Ambrose Bierce
Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity. — William Blake
Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves. — Emile M. Cioran
Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . [It] is an incapacity,… — Eugene H. Peterson
No engineer can go upon a new work and not find something peculiar, that will demand his careful reflection, and the deliberate consideration of any… — John B. Jervis
All warfare is based on deception. Therefore, when capable, feign incapacity; when active, inactivity. When near, make it appear that you are far away; when… — Sun Tzu
In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not… — Agnes Repplier
The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology. The result… — Erich Fromm
Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is an accepted principle… — Allan Bloom
The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding. — George Bernard Shaw
Many of us grow up thinking of mistakes as bad, viewing errors as evidence of fundamental incapacity. This negative thinking pattern can create a self-fulfilling… — Tony Buzan
The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of human thought to… — Muhammad Iqbal
Some Native people suggest that one should test how cold the hands are by touching the thumb to the little finger of the same hand.… — Mors Kochanski
I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of my incapacity to… — Fernando Pessoa
We cannot go on as we are with 2.6 million people on incapacity benefit, 500,000 of them are under 35. Are we really saying there… — David Cameron
The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people. — Alan Keyes
I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I've come close to defining it: a lack of empathy.… — G. M Gilbert
Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture or even knowing… — Gerhard Richter
Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people really interested in… — G. H. Hardy

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