Inability Quotations | Page 4

Disability is the inability to see ability.

The Church of Reason, like all institutions of the System, is based not on individual strength but upon individual weakness. What's really demanded in the Church of Reason is not ability, but inability. Then you are considered teachable. A truly able person is always a threat.

The future has become uninhabitable. Such hopelessness can arise, I think, only from an inability to face the present, to live in the present, to live as a responsible being among other beings in this sacred world here and now, which is all we have, and all we need, to found our hope upon.

I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

Everything is poisoned, and it's all poisoned from greed. I think our inability to communicate with each other and everything that's happening in the world is all a symptom of our greater inability to deal with nature appropriately.

Your inability to see yourself clearly is what's keeping you alive.

The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.

All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.

Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.

All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.

The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual.

[One's] inability to invalidate your hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true.

What best defines a child is the total inability to receive information from anything not plugged in.

Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.

One of the biggest defects in life is the inability to ask for help.

Do you know what astonished me most in the world? The inability of force to create anything. In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the spirit.

Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.

The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.

The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable.

Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything.

I think that the inability to love is the central problem, because that inability masks a certain terror, and that terror is the terror of being touched. And if you can't be touched, you can't be changed. And if you can't be changed, you can't be alive.

Sentimentality , the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel.

By 1948, the Italians had begun to pull themselves together, demonstrating once more their astonishing ability to cope with disaster which is so perfectly balanced by their absolute inability to deal with success

The inability to lie is far from the love of truth.

Censorship that comes from the outside assumes about people an inability to make reasoned choices.

America's biggest failure is its inability to take comedy seriously.

He's seeing my soul, my fears, my fragility, my inability to deal with a world which i pretend to master, but about which I know nothing

The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.

Humans have trouble with economics, as you may have noticed, and not just because economic circumstances sometimes cause them to starve. Humans seem to have an innate inability to pay attention to economic principles.

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail.

I am learning that the best cure for hypocrisy is community. Hypocrisy is not so much the result of not living what I preach but much more of not confessing my inability to fully live up to my own words.

Remember God is not surprised by your inabilities, your imperfections, or your faults. He has always known everything about you that you are just now finding out, and he chose you on purpose for himself.

There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief.

...you need openness and inability to do anything other than get to the point.

The core of original sin, then is LOT - Lack of Trust. Or, it could be considered an innate inability to adequately value ourselves. Label it a 'negative self-image,' but do not say that the central core of the human soul is wickedness. ... positive Christianity does not hold to human depravity, but to human inability.

The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature.

The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.