Incapacity Quotes

• 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

  Differences, Inability, Praying

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• 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

  Lying, Self, Deception

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• Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.

  Polly Toynbee

  Pain, Transformation, Threshold

  "Cardinals, bishops and doctors must not deny us our last rights" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2006.

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• The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Heartbreak, Dream

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.

  Alan Keyes

  People, Fundamentals, Moral

  Alan Keyes' Speech at the Christian Coalition Dinner in Manchester, New Hampshire, www.keyesarchives.com. February 6, 1999.

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• 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

  Country, Thinking, People

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• He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Strong, Pain

  1928 Cawdor,'Hurt Hawks'.

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• 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

  Life, Stress, Fall

  Agnes Repplier (1888). “Books and Men”

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• ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fool, Distinction, Method

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.51, 谷月社

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• 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

  Fate, Actors, Spirit

  Edwin Booth, Edwina Booth Grossman (1894). “Edwin Booth: Recollections by His Daughter, Edwina Booth Grossmann, and Letters to Her and to His Friends”, New York : Century Company

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• close some doors today. not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, I Hate You

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• Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Other Cultures, Term

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• Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

  Immanuel Kant

  Maturity, Divine Guidance, Intelligence

  "Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?" by Immanuel Kant, translated by Lewis White Beck, 1784.

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• Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.

  Emile M. Cioran

  May

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• Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.

  William Blake

  Maids, Ugly, Action

  'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'Proverbs of Hell'

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• Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Sarcastic, Art

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2450, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Men, Challenges, Humanity

  Erich Fromm (2013). “May Man Prevail?: An Inquiry into the Facts and Fictions of Foreign Policy”, Open Road Media

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• 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

  Mind, Ministry, Body

  "Pope Benedict to Resign, Vatican Says". ABCNews, February 11, 2013.

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• Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people really interested in mathematics than in music. Appearances suggest the contrary, but there are easy explanations. Music can be used to stimulate mass emotion, while mathematics cannot; and musical incapacity is recognized (no doubt rightly) as mildly discreditable, whereas most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity

  G. H. Hardy

  Appreciation, Math, Names

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• Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity.

  G. H. Hardy

  Math, Names, People

  G. H. Hardy (1992). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.86, Cambridge University Press

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• Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!

  Immanuel Kant

  Immaturity, Enlightenment, Use

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• Enlightenment is man's leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Such immaturity is self-caused if it is not caused by lack of intelligence, but by lack of determination and courage to use one's intelligence without being guided by another. Sapere Aude! Have the courage to use your own intelligence! is therefore the motto of the enlightenment.

  Immanuel Kant

  Determination, Men, Self

  "Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?". Essay by Immanuel Kant, 1784.

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• Closing cycles. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because that no longer fits your life. Shut the door, change the record, clean the house, shake off the dust. Stop being who you were, and change into who you are.

  Paulo Coelho

  Pride, Doors, Dust

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• 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

  Math, Reputation, Sanctity

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 52, 1799.

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• The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

  Idries Shah

  Age, Laziness, Rehearsal

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.147, Octagon Press Ltd

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