Less Able Quotes

15 quotes by 15 authors

• Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with… — Marshall McLuhan
• The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero. At the edge, the certainty… — James Hillman
• If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would learn as thoroughly… — Christine de Pizan
• I pretended indifference…even in the presence of love, in the presence of hunger. And the more deeply I felt, the less able I was to… — Louise Glück
• The real essence of work is concentrated energy - people who really have that in a superior degree by nature are independent of the forms… — Walter Bagehot
• Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world - a world which… — John Desmond Bernal
• If a lobster didn't look like a sci-fi monster, people would be less able to drop him alive into boiling water. — George Carlin
• Milton, when he went blind, declared that he could now begin the real work of his life. Similarly, with the merciless passage of time reducing… — Doug Scott
• To love our success more than God and our neighbor hardens the heart, making us less able to feel and to sense. — Timothy Keller
• One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It appears that most… — Edward Gibbon
• Overconsumption is a "cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals." It cuts the heart right out of our compassion. It distances us from the great… — Richard J. Foster
• With a fractured sense of self, we come to depend on what people feed back to us - often mediated through social networks - not… — Geoff Mulgan
• What is "poker"? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars. — David Mitchell
• We are putting more and more power into a system which is less and less able to carry it reliably. — Paul Gillmor
• Marriage, Sir, is much more necessary to a man than to a woman; for he is much less able to supply himself with domestick comforts — Samuel Johnson

Who Wrote These Less Able Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 15 Less Able Quotes as follows:

• 1 Less Able Quote by Doug Scott
• 1 Less Able Quote by Timothy Keller
• 1 Less Able Quote by Edward Gibbon
• 1 Less Able Quote by Richard J. Foster
• 1 Less Able Quote by Geoff Mulgan
• 1 Less Able Quote by David Mitchell
• 1 Less Able Quote by Paul Gillmor
• 1 Less Able Quote by Samuel Johnson
• 1 Less Able Quote by Marshall McLuhan
• 1 Less Able Quote by James Hillman
• 1 Less Able Quote by Christine de Pizan
• 1 Less Able Quote by Louise Glück
• 1 Less Able Quote by Walter Bagehot
• 1 Less Able Quote by John Desmond Bernal
• 1 Less Able Quote by George Carlin