Incapacity Quote by Quintilian Download Open image “The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.” — Quintilian ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Incapacity Inspirational Obscurity Obscurity Writer Proportion Proportion Incapacity Writer Generally Writing
He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness. — John Wilkins Copy Share Image
People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“I spent a long time writing in obscurity. You'll spend a long time writing in obscurity. ” — Dan Kennedy Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go, I find that writers are treated as if they are invisible, as if they don't matter. — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
How rare it is to come across a piece of writing that is unambiguous, unqualified, and also unblurred by understatements or subtleties, and yet… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. — John Updike Copy Share Image
While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern. — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
“In writing are the roots, in writing are the foundations of eloquence; by writing resources are stored up, as it were, in a sacred… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
[The Community's] crosses and trials give me confidence. But I derive my hope above all, and most especially, from our utter incapacity, for it… — Theodore Guerin Copy Share Image
Closed some doors, not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they no longer lead somewhere. — Frenz Jeffrey Copy Share Image
It is the cult of self that is killing the United States. This cult has within it the classic traits of psychopaths: superficial charm,… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
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… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“"The incapacity of sound sleep denotes a mind sorely wounded.” — Charles Brockden Brown Copy Share Image
In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Carlyle, a man of strong words and attitudes, a rhetorician out of necessity, constantly aroused by the craving for a strong faithas well as… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Some Native people suggest that one should test how cold the hands are by touching the thumb to the little finger of the same… — Mors Kochanski Copy Share Image
Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Many of us grow up thinking of mistakes as bad, viewing errors as evidence of fundamental incapacity. This negative thinking pattern can create a… — Tony Buzan Copy Share Image
“Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
![“[The Community's] crosses and trials give me confidence. But I derive my hope above all, and most especially, from our utter incapacity, for it is always upon nothingness that God is pleased to rear His works. If at any day we accomplish some good here, the glory will certainly be His alone, since…” quote by Theodore Guerin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2b8/theodore-guerin-54729_accomplish_the-community-s-crosses-and-trials-give_7176.jpg)
