Inability Quotes

• It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

  Audre Lorde

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Equality

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• All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Evil, Rooms

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• Depression is the inability to construct a future.

  Rollo May

  Sad, Depression, Depressing

  "Love and Will". Book by Rollo May, ch. 9, 1969.

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• Disability is the inability to see ability.

  Vikas Khanna

  Disability, Ability

  Twitter post from May 28, 2012

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• The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia

  Hideki Tojo

  Japan, America, Prejudice

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• Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Good Life, Men, Evil

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• I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.

  Virginia Woolf

  Funny, Friendship, Death

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• There's a tiredness of abstract inteligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Worry, Soul, Doe

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• An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

  David Hare

  Stupid, Language, Handle

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• The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Happiness, Success, Mind

  The Call of Cthulhu ch. 1 (1928)

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• The inability to listen and to depict in the countenance what others have said has spoiled many a good actress.

  Julia Marlowe

  Actresses, Spoiled, Said

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• In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

  Ezra Pound

  Literature, Pounds, Economic

  Ezra Pound (1952). “Guide to Kulchur”, p.196, New Directions Publishing

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• The sane understand that human beings are incapable of sustaining conspiracies on a grand scale, because some of our most defining qualities as a species are inattention to detail, a tendency to panic, and an inability to keep our mouths shut.

  Dean Koontz

  Quality, Details, Mouths

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Fear Nothing: A Novel”, p.169, Bantam

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• Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Communication, Thinking, Errors

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• The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11...only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Betrayal, Government, Media

  "Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida". Book by Giovanna Borradori, 2004.

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• The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.

  Kenneth Kaunda

  Change, Voice, Growth

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• Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.

  Norman Borlaug

  Men, Agriculture, Survival

  Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

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• To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this the inability to confront that which is.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Able, Unhappiness

  L. Ron Hubbard (1976). “Scientology, a New Slant on Life”, p.174, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Details, Development, Conscious

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin “The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin”, Library of Alexandria

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• I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters.

  John Cazale

  Character, People, Sometimes

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• If you ask my wife, the biggest fault is my inability around the house. She says the only thing handy about me is that I'm close by. And, I have a terrible memory. I'm bad at saying no. I often double-book. There are a lot of things.

  Hugh Jackman

  Memories, Book, Wife

  "Hugh Jackman Interview REAL STEEL". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 4, 2011.

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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 about our own organism.

  Alfred Richard Orage

  Perspective, Observation, Organisms

  Alfred Richard Orage (1954). “Essays and aphorisms”

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• What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

  John Stuart Mill

  Men, Majority, Belief

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• All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Being Alone, Being Sad, Unhappiness

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• The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.

  Wayne Dyer

  Boredom, Use, Way

  Wayne W. Dyer (1977). “Your erroneous zones”

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