Inability Quotes

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. (Sigmund Freud)
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Depression is the inability to construct a future. View quote
Rollo May
The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. View quote
John Updike
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. View quote
Audre Lorde
The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is a great force leading to change. View quote
Kenneth Kaunda
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street. View quote
James Thurber
One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself. View quote
Kim Stanley Robinson
Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process. View quote
Lawrence Lessig
Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework - an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life. (Betty Friedan)
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Sociopathy is the inability to process emotional experience, including love and caring, except when such experience can be calculated as a coldly intellectual task. View quote
Martha Stout
No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education. View quote
Bobby Scott
That's what I love you for: your inability to perceive all my hideous flaws. View quote
Audrey Niffenegger
I ignore polling as a method of government. I think that shows a certain weakness of mind - an inability to chart a course whichever way the wind blows, whichever way the media encourages the people to go, you follow. If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader. View quote
Lee Kuan Yew
Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply. View quote
Norman Borlaug
[American exceptionalism] is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they search for simplistic sources of comfort and clarity. And the people that they are now selecting to be, so to speak, the spokespersons of their anxieties are, in most cases, stunningly ignorant. View quote
Zbigniew Brzezinski
There's a tiredness of abstract inteligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
In today's life, the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. The right to live and triumph is now conquered almost by the same means by which you conquer internment in an asylum: the inability to think, amorality and hiperexcitation. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
This absence of similarity among military questions naturally brings out the inability of memory to solve them; also the sterility of invariable forms, such as figures, geometrical drawings (épures), plans (schémas), etc. One only right solution imposes itself : namely, the application, varying according to circumstances, of fixed principles. (Ferdinand Foch)
Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability to submit to certain absurd duties, and a natural result of the distorted, unbalanced education given to them. This laziness, which leads to an insuperable reluctance to learn, is, contrary to appearances, sometimes proof of intellectual superiority and a condemnation of the teacher. View quote
Octave Mirbeau
There are no philosophical problems, there is only a suite of interconnected linguistic cul de sacs created by language's inability to reflect the truth. View quote
Victor Pelevin
A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one. View quote
Richard Morgan
The sane understand that human beings are incapable of sustaining conspiracies on a grand scale, because some of our most defining qualities as a species are inattention to detail, a tendency to panic, and an inability to keep our mouths shut. View quote
Dean Koontz