Top 87 Quotes About Incapacity
#1. In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity.
Lord Chesterfield
#2. At the time there was a strong feeling in the streets that the authorities were to blame for their incapacity to dispose of the invaders without all this inconvenience.
H.G.Wells
#3. I seem to walk on a transparent surface and see beneath me all the bones and wrecks and tentacles that will eventually claim me: in other words, old age, incapacity, loneliness, death of others & myself ...
Philip Larkin
#4. Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble ... [It] is an incapacity, a crippling emotional disease that severely distorts our perception of reality ... a narcotic that leaves its addicts wasted and derelict.
Eugene H. Peterson
#5. The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.
Alan Keyes
#6. The coward's fear of death stems in large part from his incapacity to love anything but his own body. The inability to participate in others' lives stands in the way of his developing any inner resources sufficient to overcome the terror of death. - J. Glenn Gary, The Warriors
Sebastian Junger
#7. The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.
George Bernard Shaw
#8. Our power resides in our incapacity to know how alone we are.
Emil M. Cioran
#9. Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
William Blake
#10. Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.
Idries Shah
#11. Every profound dissatisfaction is of a religious nature: our failures derive from our incapacity to conceive of paradise and to aspire to it, as our discomforts from the fragility of our relations with the absolute.
Emile M. Cioran
#12. Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#13. The price of training is always a certain trained incapacity: the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.
Abraham Kaplan
#14. He [William Henry Harrison] did not live long enough to prove his incapacity for the office of President.
William C. Bryant
#15. Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.
Arthur Erickson
#16. The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
Quintilian
#17. The age of recording is necessarily an age of nostalgia
when was the past so hauntingly accessible?
but its bitterest insight is the incapacity of even the most perfectly captured sound to restore the moment of its first inscribing. That world is no longer there.
Geoffrey O'Brien
#18. Having a succession and legacy plan in place will make you ready for forced changes due to circumstances beyond your control, like death, any form of incapacity, sudden changes in laws and regulations and even corporate scandals and moral failure.
Archibald Marwizi
#19. In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin
Agnes Repplier
#20. Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to.
Edwin Booth
#21. A person can escape an ingrained pattern of mental incapacity or 'non compos mentis' ("no power of the mind") by reading, writing, thinking, and studying their environment for telling external determinates that will shape a journey of the mind, body, and soul.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#22. Many a time since have I noticed, in persons of Ginevra Fanshawe's light, careless temperament, and fair, fragile style of beauty, an entire incapacity to endure: they seem to sour in adversity, like small beer in thunder.
Charlotte Bronte
#23. Then there was the terror; the overwhelming incapacity, one's parents giving it into one's hands, this life, to be lived to the end, to be walked with serenely;
Virginia Woolf
#24. Slowed down by a sense of hopelessness in all his decisions and movements, he suffered from bitter sadness, and his incapacity solidified into a pain that often sat like a nosebleed behind his forehead the moment he tried to make up his mind to do something.
Robert Musil
#25. Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.
G.K. Chesterton
#26. Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity.
Doris Lessing
#27. And the great difference between man and monkey is in the larynx, he said, in the incapacity to frame delicately different sounding symbols by which thought could be sustained
H.G.Wells
#28. What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous
Thomas Bernhard
#29. The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.
Erich Fromm
#30. Both strength of mind and body are necessary, strengths which in the last few months have deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me,
Pope Benedict XVI
#31. So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#32. The worst conceivable government would be by philosophers; they botch every natural process with theory; their ability to make speeches and multiply ideas is precisely the sign of their incapacity for action.
Will Durant
#33. Man is often not defeated by the storm itself, but by his incapacity to handle the storm!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#34. In modern life the world belongs to the stupid, the insensitive and the disturbed. The right to live and triumph is today earned with the same qualifications one requires to be interned in a madhouse: amorality, hypomania and an incapacity for thought.
Fernando Pessoa
#35. Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.
Aldous Huxley
#37. Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.
Emile M. Cioran
#38. The seat I had taken was marked for the use of the elderly and handicapped, but had another claimant come, a figure like Charles, for instance, I would have been prepared to leave the train, when my stop came, with a lurching gait or limb held awry to designate my previously unguessed incapacity.
Alan Hollinghurst
#39. Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?
Yann Martel
#40. ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.
Ambrose Bierce
#41. You don't adopt a single child, you adopt the pain of the world. It's a litmus test of your incapacity.
Margaret Mazzantini
#42. No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#43. Close some doors today. not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere
Paulo Coelho
#44. Her incapacity to recognise change made her children conceal their views from her as Archer concealed his;
Edith Wharton
#45. The common prejudice against philosophy is the result of the incapacity of the multitude to deal with the highest problems.
John Lancaster Spalding
#46. What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.
Viktor E. Frankl
#47. Incapacity for true dialogue implies an incapacity for tolerance, self-reflection and empathy.
Azar Nafisi
#48. All wars derive from lack of empathy: the incapacity of one to understand and accept the likeness or difference of another. Whether in nations or the encounters of race and sex, competition then replaces compassion, subjection excludes mutuality.
Marya Mannes
#49. The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance.
Roland Barthes
#50. Seemingly the most easy of crafts, drawing is the one which reveals most tellingly our incapacity to sustain true vision and our acquiescence to the ready-made.
Rico Lebrun
#51. It is the cult of self that is killing the United States. This cult has within it the classic traits of psychopaths: superficial charm, grandiosity and self-importance ; a need for constant stimulation; a penchant for lying, deception and manipulation; and the incapacity for remorse or guilt.
Chris Hedges
#52. The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive down, as it were, and sink more rapidly than that which sinks in advance of you.
Franz Kafka
#53. And this accident came about ... ?Through nature's unpredictability not man's incapacity. No errors were committed in our maneuvers. Nevertheless, we can't prevent a loss of balance from taking its toll. One may defy human laws, but no one can withstand the laws of nature.
Jules Verne
#54. It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
Lord Melbourne
#55. But the lucidity of her old age allowed her to see, and she said so many times, that the cries of children in their mothers' wombs are not announcements of ventriloquism or a faculty for prophecy but an unmistakable sign of an incapacity for love.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#56. He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.
Robinson Jeffers
#57. Lets build a monument for the veto. Lets build a monument for impotence and incapacity.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
#58. Neurology's favourite word is 'deficit', denoting an impairment or incapacity of neurological function: loss of speech, loss of language, loss of memory, loss of vision, loss of dexterity, loss of identity and myriad other lacks and losses of specific functions (or faculties).
Oliver Sacks
#59. Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#60. In fact the bare adjective "bad" hardly scratches the surface of the man's awesome incapacity.
John Biggins
#61. Flaubert's famous sentence, "Madame Bovary, c'est moi" ("Madame Bovary, she is me"), in reality means, " Madame Bovary, c'est nous" ("Madame Bovary, she is us"), in our modern incapacity to live a "good-enough" life.
Sophie Barthes
#62. Neurotic anxiety, therefore, is that which occurs when the incapacity for coping adequately with threats is not objective but subjective - I.e., is due not to objective weakness but to inner psychological patterns and conflicts which prevent the individual from using his powers.
Rollo May
#63. I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of my incapacity to really want to be great. Whenever I arrived at a certainty, I remembered that those with the greatest certainties are lunatics.
Fernando Pessoa
#64. I wondered where Cohn got that incapacity to enjoy Paris. Possibly from Mencken. Mencken hates Paris, I believe. So many young men get their likes and dislikes from Mencken.
Ernest Hemingway,
#65. Don't be discouraged by your incapacity to dispel darkness from the world. Light your little candle and step forward.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#66. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
Immanuel Kant
#67. 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 the incapacity to tell the difference.
Bill Watterson
#69. What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#70. You could say that clinical depression is an incapacity to aesthetic response. It's like there's a constant agreement within ourselves, a kind of mutual understanding between ourselves and the world.
Peter Schjeldahl
#71. That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves
C. G. Jung
#72. Some Native people suggest that one should test how cold the hands are by touching the thumb to the little finger of the same hand. As soon as you cannot carry out this exercise you are reaching a dangerous state of incapacity and you should immediately take steps to warm up.
Mors Kochanski
#73. Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.
Polly Toynbee
#74. No engineer can go upon a new work and not find something peculiar, that will demand his careful reflection, and the deliberate consideration of any advice that he may receive; and nothing so fully reveals his incapacity as a pretentious assumption of knowledge, claiming to understand everything.
John B. Jervis
#75. The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
Idries Shah
#76. While I am proud of a number of accomplishments, there are real costs to being unreasonable. Long hours. Too little time with family. A near incapacity for, as they say, stopping and smelling the roses.
Eli Broad
#77. We cannot go on as we are with 2.6 million people on incapacity benefit, 500,000 of them are under 35. Are we really saying there are half a million people in this country under 35 who are simply too ill to work? I don't think that's right.
David Cameron
#78. A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.
Mahatma Gandhi
#79. When people aren't ready to hear a truth it is easier to label the discloser as insane to hide their own incapacity.
Ahmed Hulusi
#80. Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes.
Fernando Pessoa
#81. Some people live to be seventy, sometimes eighty years old believing there is always something new just around the corner, as they say; in the end they practically have to be killed or at least reduced to a state of serious incapacity to get them to see reason.
Michel Houellebecq
#82. In this negative frame, the quickest ticket to heaven, enlightenment, or salvation is "unworthiness" itself, or at least a willingness to face our own smallness and incapacity.
Richard Rohr
#83. Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
Emile Zola
#84. I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I've come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It's the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.
G. M Gilbert
#85. The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
Agnes Repplier
#86. Asceticism and celibacy can conceal many incapacities.
Mason Cooley
#87. In this world, who can do a thing, will not;
And who would do it, cannot, I perceive:
Yet the will's somewhat - somewhat, too, the power
And thus we half-men struggle.
Robert Browning
