Quotes with inability

  • What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

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  • Blaise Pascal All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • A.R. Orage The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism.
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  • Bobby Seale All I did in Chicago was to exercise my legal right to speak on my own behalf and I was given four years in jail as a result. But I think the most serious injustice perpetrated by the court system in America is the inability of a black man to get a jury of his peers.
    Interview with The Guardian (February 1970)
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Jean de la Bruyère All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Walter Bagehot An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Rollo May Depression is the inability to construct a future.
    Rollo May
    American psychologist
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  • Ezra Pound In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Audre Lorde It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Ben Shahn It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view of the malfunction common to 14th century rulers: inability to inhibit impulse.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Bobby Scott 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.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Sir William Temple Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Betty Friedan 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
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Wayne Dyer The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Carl Sagan The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer.
    Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Umberto Eco There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Virginia Woolf 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.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Bill Clinton Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Henry Miller What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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