Incapacity Quotes
69 quotes by 59 authors
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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
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Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
— William Blake
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Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.
— Emile M. Cioran
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.
— George Bernard Shaw
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.
— Alan Keyes
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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
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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
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Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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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