Our Inability Quotes
39 quotes by 38 authors
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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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All our surest statements about the nature of the world are mathematical statements, yet we do not know what mathematics "is"... and so we find…
— John D. Barrow
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One of the problems we have as a government is our inability to keep secrets. And it costs us, in terms of our relationship with…
— Dick Cheney
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The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.
— Albert Allen Bartlett
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Everything is poisoned, and it's all poisoned from greed. I think our inability to communicate with each other and everything that's happening in the world…
— Woody Harrelson
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Our inability to relate to one another is very, very, very important. When we don't have it, we get situations like Bosnia
— Edward James Olmos
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I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place. We are…
— Barbara Brown Taylor
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We are more likely to fail as craftsmen due to our inability to organize obsession than because of our lack of ability.
— Richard Sennett
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There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live ...
— Octavian Paler
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It's not about the fish; it's not about the pollution; it's not about the climate change. It's about us and our greed and our need…
— Jeremy Jackson
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When we can’t marry the person we had in mind, our inability to look beyond may even blind sight us from someone who is in…
— Yasmin Mogahed
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There is something suspect about our inability to enjoy anything.
— Chogyam Trungpa
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Our real illiteracy is our inability to create
— Friedensreich Hundertwasser
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It pleases our heavenly Father when we acknowledge and confess to Him our inability to run our own lives. That is what we are doing…
— Joyce Meyer
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
— Simone Weil
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Our inability to see the beauty doesn't suggest in the slightest that beauty is not there. Rather, it suggests that we are not looking carefully…
— Harold S. Kushner
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The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial…
— Alfred Richard Orage
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In issues of recent ethnic wars and genocides - particularly if you look at Darfur - one of the most remarkable things is our inability…
— Stephen Daldry
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Even when we are frustrated by our inability to understand a circumstance or event, there are unseen angels bringing comfort and protection as directed by…
— Mary C. Neal
Who Wrote These Our Inability Quotes
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