Quotes of Incompetent - somelinesforyou

“ Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. ”

- Edward Gibbon

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

- Jean de la Bruyere

“ Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality. ”

- Emily Dickinson

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

- Douglas Yates

“ So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering. ”

- Brenda Ueland

“ Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits.". ”

- Paul Graham

“ 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. - Reflections on Life. ”

- Alexis Carrel

“ Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. ”

- Harry Shearer

“ Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves. ”

- Larry McMurtry

“ Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. ”

- Isaac Asimov

“ The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate. ”

- Leon Jaworski

“ The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. ”

- Lord Acton

“ A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done. ”

- Fred A. Allen

“ I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone. ”

- Blaise Pascal

“ He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. ”

- Aristotle

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

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth. ”

- Thomas H. Huxley

“ Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves. ”

- Brendan Behan

“ Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against the truth. ”

- Thomas Huxley

“ Worry is a complete cycle of inefficient thought revolving about a pivotal fear. ”

- Unknown

“ To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern. ”

- Nigel Lawson

“ These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished. ”

- Christopher Columbus

“ I can't do a film after having debated it. I am unable to do a film while discussing it with my team. I issue directives. I do not achieve it otherwise. ”

- Hayao Miyazaki

“ He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule. ”

- Seneca

“ I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything. ”

- George Herbert Palmer

“ Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet, Which once inflam'd my soul, and still inspires my wit. ”

- John Dryden

“ The more powerful the work, the more powerless the worker. ”

- Karl Marx
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