Incapable Quotes

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. (Mahatma Gandhi)
Those who apply themselves too much to little things often become incapable of great ones. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their object-relations. View quote
Sigmund Freud
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. View quote
Albert Einstein
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
We must never assume that which is incapable of proof. View quote
George Henry Lewes
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either. View quote
Erich Fromm
The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines. View quote
Marc Bloch
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. (Blaise Pascal)
The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many in shallows and in miseries, are the decrees of a large, farseeing be. View quote
Herbert Spencer
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns. View quote
Bruce Lee
No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon, the least confused thinker its Socrates, the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare . View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The whole Scotch nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it. View quote
Horace Walpole
I love life thats my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life. View quote
Albert Camus
Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony but organically I am incapable of a tune. View quote
Charles Lamb
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit. View quote
Walter Scott
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. View quote
Josiah Warren
I'm incapable of getting angry with Angela Merkel. View quote
Donald Tusk
The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so also can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular. (Eric Temple Bell)
The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand. View quote
Yves Tanguy
The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily. View quote
Paul Westerberg
The male is just a bundle of conditioned reflexes, is incapable of a mentally free response, is tied to his early conditioning, is determined completely by his past experiences. His earliest experiences are with his mother, and he is throughout his life tied to her. It never becomes completely clear to the male that he is not part of his mother, that he is him and she is her. View quote
Valerie Solanas
Governments allocate enormous resources for social programs. And it is true that for many years we have had one of the best social service systems in the world. Yet we are still incapable of meeting the needs of tens of thousands of Canadian families. View quote
Kim Campbell