Quotes with incapacity

  • It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.

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  • Agnes Repplier In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Lord Melbourne It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
    Lord Melbourne
    British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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  • Arthur Erickson Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • William Blake Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Robert Hayden The first proof of a person's incapacity to achieve, is their endeavoring to fix the stigma of failure on others.
    Robert Hayden
    American poet, essayist, and educator (1913 - 1980)
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  • Anais Nin The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Abraham Kaplan The price of training is always a certain trained incapacity: the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.
    The Conduct of Inquiry
    Abraham Kaplan
    American philosopher
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