Quotes of Incapable - somelinesforyou

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

- Raymond Chandler

“ An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with… ”

- Carl Jung

“ This great misfortune — to be incapable of solitude. ”

- Jean de la Bruyere

“ Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

- James Callaghan

“ No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change. ”

- John Ruskin

“ Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth. ”

- Harold Macmillan

“ Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies. ”

- Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

“ A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. ”

- Robert Anson Heinlein

“ I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the "oughtness" that forever confronts him. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ As to what respects the cure of this Disease, Stupidity, whether innate or acquir'd though it be not usuall be cured, yet it is want to be amended. ”

- Thomas Willis

“ I believe that the ego is incapable of splitting the object - internal and external-without a corresponding splitting taking place within the ego. ”

- Melanie Klein

“ The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it. ”

- Murray Kempton

“ Those who apply themselves too closely to trifling things often become incapable of great things. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only be setting someone free. ”

- James Baldwin

“ We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ University degrees are a bit like adultery: you may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be thought incapable. ”

- Sir Peter Imbert

“ True generosity does not consist in obeying every impulse of humanity… so as to render us incapable of future ones. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness. ”

- John Milton

“ A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Until a child is one year old it is incapable of sin. ”

- Talmud

“ If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. ”

- Blaise Pascal

“ People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness. ”

- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

“ I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. ”

- Mary Montagu

“ People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. ”

- Douglas Yates

“ Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs. ”

- Norman Mailer

“ All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns. ”

- Bruce Lee
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