Top 100 Quotes About Incapable
#1. The man of least capacity is the one who shows himself incapable of self-correction.
Muhammad Ali
#2. She believed that he would be incapable of hurting her as Graham had.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#3. I refuse to accept the idea that the 'is-ness' of a man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the 'ought-ness' that forever confronts him.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#4. When we want to engage, believe me, we can. And not only will we then make fewer mistakes of perception, but we will become the types of focused, observant people that we may have thought we were incapable of becoming
Anonymous
#5. Creativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a person can't read or write, you don't assume that this person is incapable of it, just that he or she hasn't learned how to do it. The same is true of creativity.
Ken Robinson
#6. As the young have discovered, the secret divinity of the twentieth century is Science. But Science is incapable of forming character. The more people talk of human sciences, the less effect human sciences have on man.
Bruce Chatwin
#7. He bombarded me with words, of all things, apparently clueless to the fact that the predawn hours rendered me incapable of coherent thought.
Darynda Jones
#8. The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis.
Edgar Allan Poe
#9. It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going.
C. G. Jung
#10. One can give nothing whatever without giving oneself - that is to say, risking oneself.If one cannot risk oneself, then one is spimply incapable of giving
James Baldwin
#11. If, however, you are indulgent, but unable to make your authority felt; kind-hearted, but unable to enforce your commands; and incapable, moreover, of quelling disorder: then your soldiers must be likened to spoilt children; they are useless for any practical purpose.
Sun Tzu
#12. The silence was pregnant with noise, with muted fury, with questions the father found too disgusting to frame and with answers to which the son was incapable of giving voice.
Johnny Rich
#13. To her all things are poignantly lacking - but she is incapable of desiring anything.
Beryl Markham
#14. an exception: in the sentence I asked him what he thought of my review in his book, and his response was unprintable, the word unprintable means something much more specific than "incapable of being printed.") The
Steven Pinker
#15. I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself. Why refer to lady crack pipe or good sir dishrag when these things could never live up to all that their sex implied?
David Sedaris
#16. Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he is incapable of moral action and also of moral character.
Charles Grandison Finney
#17. I seem to be incapable of playing that guy that always does the right thing, who always responds well in any circumstance.
Grant Bowler
#18. Corpses are incapable of offering informed consent, and are hence no better than vibrators.
Seanan McGuire
#19. She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.
William Faulkner
#20. I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.
Voltaire
#21. This line of reasoning brings us to a challenging question: If people are as incapable, as immoral, and as ignorant as the politicians indicate, then why is the right of these same people to vote defended with such passionate insistence?
Frederic Bastiat
#22. Man is incapable of understanding any argument that interferes with his revenue.
Peter Mallouk
#23. I love that Katie would never, ever, in a million years, treat anyone as blatantly shitty as you've treated her tonight. It's a shame you're so thoroughly self-absorbed that it renders you incapable of getting to know her, because believe me, if you could, you'd be a better person for it.
Kim Holden
#24. He also had a kind of helpless politeness, which I took advantage of. He was quite incapable of refusing a direct request, and so, because I asked him to, he invited me to several parties during the month I stayed in Hemgogn.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#25. Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.
Rachel Cusk
#26. The stumbling block will turn out to be the traditional one for students of consciousness: the flashlight is incapable of shining on itself, so we can't trust what its light reveals.
Jonathan Lethem
#27. I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.
John Shirley
#28. Let's say I have a mystical soul and a rational brain, and, like Montaigne, I am incapable of choosing between them. I don't know if I believe in God, but I am often tempted to believe.
Francois Mitterrand
#29. Monty Python is like catnip for nerds. Once you get them started quoting it, they are constitutionally incapable of feeling depressed.
Kevin Hearne
#30. Goals incapable of attainment have driven many a man to despair, but despair is easier to get to than that
one need merely look out of the window, for example.
Donald Barthelme
#31. This one fact implies everything; and it is scarcely necessary to point out, for instance, that while the Difference Engine can merely tabulate, and is incapable of developing, the Analytical Engine can either tabulate or develope.
Ada Lovelace
#32. Is the Justice Department incapable of regulating itself? Without strong regulation, the privileges we give them to investigate us, to conduct their normal anti-crime things, can spiral out of control.
Steven Hatfill
#33. I do still get extremely nervous before speeches. My biggest fear is that I'll be standing there in front of hundreds of people and be incapable of talking. I'm afraid that I'll make a complete fool of myself and be unable to go on.
Marcus Buckingham
#34. Then turn your eyes back on me,
and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are incapable of understanding adult subjects.
V.C. Andrews
#35. The smaller you get - the smaller life makes you - the easier it is to see the grandeur of grace. While I am far more incapable than I may have initially thought, God is infinitely more capable than I ever hoped.
Tullian Tchividjian
#36. We fear what we don't understand and find serenity in what we're incapable of understanding..
Scott Hildreth
#37. Which drew from Bloch nothing more instructive than "Sir, I am absolutely incapable of telling you whether it has rained. I live so resolutely apart from physical contingencies that my senses no longer trouble to inform me of them." "My
Marcel Proust
#38. No wonder so many adults long to return to university, to all those deadlines
ahhh, that structure! Scaffolding to which we may cling! Even if it is arbitrary, without it, we're lost, wholly incapable of separating the Romantic from the Victorian in our sad, bewildering lives ...
Marisha Pessl
#39. O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#40. Children are the only people who can see adults from inside their lives, permitted to observe every small thing, as if their forming minds are incapable of judging what they see, or as if it does not lodge there, somewhere, permanently,
Anna Funder
#41. To those who are incapable of presenting the historic truth in an honest way, I want to say that Poland was not a perpetrator but a victim of World War Two.
Ewa Kopacz
#42. You cannot hate what you do not know. They do not know you, therefore they are incapable of hating you. Perhaps I might concede they hate the idea of you. But if this is true, then your task is a simple one. You merely have to show them that you are not that idea.
Tom King
#43. What are called viruses are always dead and incapable of any acts whatsoever. Dead matter may be acted upon but never acts of itself.
T.C. Fry
#44. Stud males might be emotional, temperamental, and developmentally stunted, at the mercy of their androgens, but that didn't make them incapable of generosity, friendship, cleverness, or creativity.
Elizabeth Bear
#45. Whether many people realize it yet or not, man, the Inferior Animal, has by now proved himself incapable of keeping his own species - and others - alive for very much longer. So the earth has begun its own plan to set things right.
Benjamin Hoff
#46. The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable of calculation
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#47. The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.
Oliver DeMille
#48. We were bothered by sex because it is a fundamentally disruptive, overwhelming and demented force, strongly at odds with the majority of our ambitions and all but incapable of being discreetly integrated within civilized society.
Alain De Botton
#49. I am an invisible monster, and I am incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.
Chuck Palahniuk
#50. What if I told you I'm incapable of tolerating my own heart?
Virginia Woolf
#51. A civilization that proves incapable of solving the problems it creates is a decadent civilization.
A civilization that chooses to close its eyes to its most crucial problems is a stricken civilization.
A civilization that uses its principles for trickery and deceit is a dying civilization.
Aime Cesaire
#52. Sometimes even braves are incapable of handling situations.
Kishore Bansal
#53. The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#54. You will remind yourself, she will remind you, you will remind each other, that this is for the best, that you are physically incapable of loving one another,
Neil Hilborn
#55. A dependent clause is like a dependent child: incapable of standing on its own but able to cause a lot of trouble.
William Safire
#56. The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.
Murray Kempton
#57. Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#58. The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.
Yves Tanguy
#59. But i'm old now, no longer fit for the fray, i'm even incapable of hating. I only feel sick at heart, irritable and exasperated. At night my head seems to be on fire with so many thoughts crowding in and i can't get any sleep ... Oh, if only i were young again!
Anton Chekhov
#60. Perhaps the most incapable Executive that ever filled the presidential chair ... it would be difficult to imagine a man less fit to guide the state with honor and safety through the stormy times that marked the opening of the present century.
Theodore Roosevelt
#61. A healthy society is life-affirming. Homosexuality is the metaphysical negation of life. Incapable of reproduction (giving life), it can replenish its numbers only by seduction.
Don Feder
#62. The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency to lower women's self-respect.
Karen Horney
#63. There is a saying that only the man who has already committed a crime and repented of it is incapable of that crime; to be free of an erroneous opinion, I myself might add, one must at some time have professed it.
Jorge Luis Borges
#66. I've always loved you. I never stopped loving you. I'm incapable of it. I'm incapable of loving anyone but you.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#68. It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people.
Jose Saramago
#69. I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.
Gary Oldman
#70. Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.
Mary Astell
#71. I am not, as it turns out, incapable of changing myself or my life. I am not, as it turns out, worthless. I am, in fact, one seriously badass Witch who holds in her hands the power to change the world.
Dianne Sylvan
#72. Let me repeat that: Our civilization is constitutionally incapable of reversing the annihilation of natural capital, or even slowing it down. Get used to that. When we really understand that, the project of reconceiving civilization itself will gain powerful impetus.
Charles Eisenstein
#73. Libertarians are incapable of being a racist, because racism is a collectivist idea.
Ron Paul
#74. I've never enjoyed myself. I'm incapable of enjoying myself. There's just some people who don't enjoy themselves very much.
Harry Crews
#75. And maybe no better. There is no government in Mexico. Hell, there's no God in Mexico. Never will be. We are dealing with a people manifestly incapable of governing themselves. And do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them.
Cormac McCarthy
#76. The whole world is incapable of judging either right or wrong. but it is certain that actionless action can judge both right and wrong.
Zhuangzi
#77. I think all writers are a bit crazy; Damaged souls, incapable of doing anything else.
Paul Auster
#78. Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions, new methods, new points of view. It is as though people would rather die than change.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#79. I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
Simone De Beauvoir
#80. Perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the fact that no penalty is imposed for not sharing them, my illusions are not, like religious ones, incapable of correction.
Sigmund Freud
#81. People are incapable of stereotyping you; you stereotype yourself because you're the one who accepts roles that put you in this rut or in this stereotype.
Eva Mendes
#82. Unlike Charlie, I was incapable of making friends or thinking about other people and their problems. I was interested in myself, and myself only. Fr one long moment in that mirror I had seen myself through Charlie's eyes - looked down at myself and saw what I had really become. And I was ashamed.
Daniel Keyes
#83. but we men are so thumpingly incapable of seeing what is before us. It
Jojo Moyes
#84. I've found that human beings learn from their misdeeds just as often as from their good deeds. I am envious of that, for I am incapable of misdeeds. Were I not, then my growth would be exponential.
Neal Shusterman
#85. Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence
Ezra Pound
#86. Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#87. When I meet gay men anywhere in the world, there is a spontaneity and a spirit of fun and mischief that lesbians seem incapable of.
Camille Paglia
#88. Italians are genetically incapable of standing in an orderly line, so much so that the movie theater seems more crowded than it actually is.
Petra F. Bagnardi
#89. If you have no conditions you can enjoy life infinitely. If you have conditions, because of them you become incapable.
Rajneesh
#90. Whether in a suit or in a loincloth people are ignorant little thorns cutting into one another. They seem incapable of advancing beyond the violent tendencies which at one time were necessary for survival.
Jhonen Vasquez
#91. Mongols were "a race of people on the path to extinction, incapable of progress, doomed to be swallowed up by their neighbors.
Willard Sunderland
#92. If your life is rushing in many directions at once, you are incapable of the kind of deep, unhurried prayer that is vital to the Christian walk.
Bill Hybels
#93. You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live in a country which is incapable of estimating it.
Charles Babbage
#94. You should sit," Lucas said, and he wasn't talking to Mercy.
Sascha stared at him. "I didn't realize pregnancy of four weeks' duration made me incapable of standing upright."
"It makes me incapable of reason.
Nalini Singh
#95. Consumer: A person who is capable of choosing a president but incapable of choosing a bicycle without help from a government agency.
Herbert Stein
#96. A man's capable of understanding anything - how the ether vibrates, and what's going on in the sun - but how any other man can blow his nose differently from him, that he's incapable of understanding.
Ivan Turgenev
#97. Above, far above the prejudices and passions of men soar the laws of nature. Eternal and immutable, they are the expression of the creative power they represent what is, what must be, what otherwise could not be. Man can come to understand the: he is incapable of changing them.
Vilfredo Pareto
#98. The civilization of cities is breeding a new race of monks who have none of the original religious drive towards chastity, but are just incapable of facing the responsibilities of marriage.
Kylie Tennant
#99. The belief that young people are incapable of making reasonable decisions is a cornerstone of our system of compulsory, closely monitored education.
Peter O. Gray
#100. For if you know what you want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you do not know, your desires are limitless and no one can tell how to deal with you. Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
Alan W. Watts
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