Incapacity Quotes

69 Incapacity quotes by 58 unique authors

The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to… — Erich Fromm
The Chinese tell time by 'The Year of the Horse' or 'The Year of the Dragon.' I tell time by 'The Year of the Back'… — Earl Weaver
It is the cult of self that is killing the United States. This cult has within it the classic traits of psychopaths: superficial charm, grandiosity… — Chris Hedges
He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse. — Robinson Jeffers
When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
All of us wrestle with the angels of our inabilities all the time. We live in fear that our incapacities will be exposed. We posture… — Joan D. Chittister
Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal. — Polly Toynbee
Closing cycles. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because that no longer fits your life. Shut the door, change the record, clean… — Paulo Coelho
Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to exploit the new… — Yann Martel
The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive… — Franz Kafka
Nothing is more symptomatic of the enervation, of the decompression of the Western imagination, than our incapacity to respond to the landings on the Moon.… — George Steiner
The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary. — George Bernard Shaw
On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at court or at war, from… — Blaise Pascal
This superficial blurring has something to do with the incapacity I have just mentioned. I can make no statement about reality clearer than my own… — Gerhard Richter
Don't be discouraged by your incapacity to dispel darkness from the world. Light your little candle and step forward. — Mata Amritanandamayi
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

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