Incapacity Quotes

69 Incapacity quotes by 58 unique authors

Both strength of mind and body are necessary, strengths which in the last few months have deteriorated in me to the extent that I have… — Pope Benedict XVI
What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Every profound dissatisfaction is of a religious nature: our failures derive from our incapacity to conceive of paradise and to aspire to it, as our… — Emile M. Cioran
No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will. — B. H. Liddell Hart
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity. — Quintilian
ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity. — Ambrose Bierce
Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as… — Fernando Pessoa
Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms. — Arthur Erickson
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. — Immanuel Kant
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. — Anais Nin
This account of him [Thomas More] developed as I wrote: what first attracted me was a person who could not be accused of any incapacity… — Robert Bolt
The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance. — Roland Barthes
Enlightenment is manâ€™s leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Such immaturity is self-caused if… — Immanuel Kant
What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to… — Viktor E. Frankl
What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous — Thomas Bernhard
That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing… — Carl Jung
Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the… — Bill Watterson
close some doors today. not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere — Paulo Coelho
A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right pathâ€”he does not mock and jeer at him… — Epictetus
We compromise ourselves the day we are born. If we are looking for the original sin, there it is- our incapacity to live honestly with… — F. Sionil JosÃ©

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