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

  68 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  115 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Motivational

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

  120 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  16 Copy quote

• 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”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  168 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  100 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  1 Copy quote

• 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.

  1 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mistake, Making Mistakes, Persons

  1 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

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

  James Callaghan

  Strong, Mistake, Long

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  51 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  2 Copy quote

  Show source

• Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere.

  Ivor Novello

  Real, Actors, May

  1 Copy quote

• To be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one's weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us are incapable of manufacturing. We relax back into the moulds of habit. They are secure, they bind us and keep us contained at the expense of freedom. To break the moulds, to be heedless of the seductions of security is an impossible struggle, but one of the few that count. To be free is to learn, to test yourself constantly, to gamble.

  Robyn Davidson

  Inspirational, Freedom, Struggle

  Robyn Davidson (2012). “Tracks”, p.220, A&C Black

  92 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are moments when people are incapable of understanding happiness.

  Paulo Coelho

  People, Understanding, Moments

  1 Copy quote

• The people who are abroad are all those that have no religion, neither one based on speculation nor one received by tradition. Such are the extreme Turks that wander about in the north, the Kushites who live in the south, and those in our country who are like these. I consider these as irrational beings, and not as human beings; they are below mankind, but above monkeys, since they have the form and shape of man, and a mental faculty above that of the monkey.

  Maimonides

  Country, Religious, Animal

  Moses Maimonides (1961). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.384, Courier Corporation

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Sadness, whether it be from bereavement, or disappointment, or misfortune of any kind may linger on through life

  James De Mille

  Disappointment, Sadness, Long

  James De Mille (2015). “A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder”, p.108, Booklassic

  1 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are two kinds of hangover: in one you feel ill and incapable, in the other you feel ill and lucid.

  John Fowles

  Hangover, Two, Kind

  JOHN FOWLES (1969). “THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN”

  1 Copy quote

  Show source

• Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it.

  Hannah Arendt

  Creating, Violence

  Hannah Arendt (1970). “On Violence”, p.62, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Because I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not a god. Rather, a loner troubled by longings, incapable of finding a suitable language and despairing at the impossibility of composing messages in a playable key--as if I no longer understood the codes used by the estimable people who wanted to hear from me and would have so much to reply if only the impediments were taken away.

  Saul Bellow

  Taken, Keys, People

  Saul Bellow (2010). “Saul Bellow: Letters”, p.422, Penguin

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

  Raymond Chandler

  Age, Literature, Kind

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.75, Univ of California Press

  9 Copy quote

  Show source