Incapable Quotes

• The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

  Bruce Lee

  Patterns, Martial Arts, Truth Is

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.223, Tuttle Publishing

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• You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Faith, Hope

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Motivational

  "Science, Philosophy, and Religion" (1940).

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• A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Faith

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• If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Relationship, Solitude, Finding Peace

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• We perceive and interpret the outer world through a set of incredibly fine internal receptors. But we are incapable, by ourselves, of grasping or tweezing out any permanent, sharable figment of it. Practically speaking, we ritually verify what is there, and are disposed to call it reality. But, with photographs, we have concrete proof that we have not been hallucinating all our lives.

  Max Kozloff

  Reality, World, Photograph

  Max Kozloff (1979). “Photography & Fascination: Essays”

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• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• We're an ignorant nation right now. We're not really capable, I do not think, the majority of our people, of making the decisions that have to be made at election time and particularly in the selection of their legislatures and their Congress and the presidency, of course. I don't think we're bright enough to do the job that would preserve our democracy, our republic. I think we're in serious danger.

  Walter Cronkite

  Anchorman, Jobs, Thinking

  "Dolly Parton's Anniversary; Walter Cronkite on Peter Jennings". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. September 30, 2005.

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• 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

  Religious, Responsibility, Race

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• I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie.

  Busy Philipps

  Lying, Parody, Persons

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mistake, Making Mistakes, Persons

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• What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more rational means of communication.

  Norman Cousins

  Communication, Mean, Men

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• In what touches their social convictions, most persons do not think. The threat of change, with all it suggests to them in the loss of social and economic privilege, alarms so deeply that they are incapable of unprejudiced thought. They seem to themselves to be thinking, with lucidity and fairness, but since they start from the conviction that change must undoubtedly be for the worse or from settled grief at the thought of losing what is old and lovely, they are doing no more than following a logical sequence of ideas from a false premise.

  Storm Jameson

  Grief, Loss, Thinking

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• Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.

  James Callaghan

  Strong, Mistake, Long

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• If your pride leads you to boast,
  you will be doubly guilty,
  because your intelligence will have shown
  that it is incapable of controlling your pride.

  Ibn Hazm

  Wisdom, Islamic, Pride

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• More than once I was tormented by the thought that if Providence had put me in the place of the incapable of criminal incompetents or scoundrels in our propaganda service, our battle with Destiny would have taken a different turn.

  Adolf Hitler

  Taken, Destiny, Battle

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Appreciation, Action, Pleasure

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• Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If it did not, it would be incapable of drawing the hearts of men or angels.

  Henry Miller

  Heart, Angel, Men

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

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• We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspiring, Rights, Racism

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those of us who are mere mortals. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mortality says to us that here's a figure who got up every day of his life facing tremendous odds and yet overcame them.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Kings, Thinking, Odds

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• I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

  Albert Camus

  Accepting, Made, Adversaries

  Albert Camus (1965). “Notebooks, 1942-1951”

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• The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.

  Alexis Carrel

  Destiny, Giving, Firsts

  "Reflections On Life". Book by Alexis Carrel, 1952.

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• Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Atheist, Life And Love

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.28, Broadway Books

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• Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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• Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

  Erich Fromm

  Selfish, Love You, Greed

  Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.105, Open Road Media

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