Incompetence Quotes

139 Incompetence quotes by 112 unique authors

A proclivity for science is embedded deeply within us, in all times, places, and cultures. It has been the means for our survival. It is… — Carl Sagan
All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone thinks… — C.S. Lewis
Adventure is a sign of incompetence. — Vilhjalmur Stefansson
One of the reasons for conspiracy theories is an assumption that people in high places always know what they are doing. When they do something… — Thomas Sowell
A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the "buffone", or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for… — Ambrose Bierce
Guilt is the sum total of: All the negative feelings we have ever had about ourselves! Any form of self-hatred, self-rejection, feelings of worthlessness, sinfulness,… — Kenneth Wapnick
A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that. — Ambrose Bierce
The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus enthusiasm, the constant… — Raymond Chandler
When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience. These… — C.S. Lewis
In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying,… — Anthony Zinni
Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to… — Soong May-ling
The Tea Party represents stakeholders in the American system; people who were never involved in politics or thought they had to be, yet realized that… — Tammy Bruce
For the ANC to cry 'sabotage' the night before crucial local government elections shows just how desperate they are to disguise their incompetence and mismanagement. — Helen Zille
For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system… — Charles Bass
O thrice unhappy home Whose master doesn't know the difference between a watt and an ohm! — Ogden Nash
A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula. — H. L. Mencken
Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence. — Robert A. Heinlein
It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code... obscurity is usually the refuge of… — Robert A. Heinlein
Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three, and who besides,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an… — Ambrose Bierce
All the 'too close to call' announcements are not due to incompetence ... It's caution. — Chris Matthews
There are so many angles to follow up: government incompetence, sophisticated charity scams, how insurance companies treat victims, construction of the levees, who will start… — Brian Ross
Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow. — Robert Genn
I have little tolerance for incompetence, sloppy thinking, and laziness. — Michael E. DeBakey
Why do we love the idea that people might be secretly working together to control and organise the world? Because we don't like to face… — Jonathan Cainer

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