Incapable Quotes

The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction of its truth, it hides the weaker parts of it, and makes us incapable of accepting the proofs against it.

It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.

Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence.

Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis.

When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.

Cats never feel threatened. They are genetically incapable of accepting that anyone could possibly dislike anything as perfect as a cat.

I am an invisible monster, and I am incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.

Adventures happen only to those incapable of planning an expedition.

It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of discovering, or, of remedying it.

In a great nation, the majority are incapable of judging wisely of things.

The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.

We cannot love ourselves unless we love others, and we cannot love others unless we love ourselves. But a selfish love of ourselves makes us incapable of loving others.

Personal integrity implies such trustworthiness and incorruptibility that we are incapable of being false to a trust or covenant.

My personal life absolutely goes down the drain when I start working; that's something that I'm incapable of doing.

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

I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them.

Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.

People are incapable of stereotyping you; you stereotype yourself because you're the one who accepts roles that put you in this rut or in this stereotype

Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information.

Let your attacker worry about his life. Don't hold back. Strike no more after he is incapable of further action, but see that he is stopped.

It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.

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

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

Qhuinn gave in immediately, as he was categorically incapable of denying the female anything — most certainly not one of her hugs. They were even better than her lasagna.

Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.

I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.

The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.

When we fixate on the worst in something, we render ourselves incapable of fixing anything... But attend to the good in something - and we act towards the best in everything.

When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.

Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.

My father is incapable of showing much affection, or even of carrying on a conversation. I didn't want to have a relationship with him just because he's my blood relative. It would bore me.

I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

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

...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.

If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered.

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

I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.

The man of least capacity is the one who shows himself incapable of self-correction.

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

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

For human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque body from which words are born.

Who knows what it is, but he [Donald Trump] is incapable of having a consistent thought or policy.

No being incapable of controlling their own mind or developing ethics and a loving character can ever be a Master. First we must have accomplishment.

A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.