Inability Quotes - Page 2

• The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Happiness, Success, Mind

  The Call of Cthulhu ch. 1 (1928)

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• We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Teacher, Selfish, Live Life

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• We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others.

  Brené Brown

  Change, Psychology, Feelings

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• Shortly, the public will be unable to reason or think for themselves. They'll only be able to parrot the information they've been given on the previous night's news.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Night, Thinking, Media

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• An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

  David Hare

  Stupid, Language, Handle

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• All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Being Alone, Being Sad, Unhappiness

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

  John Stuart Mill

  Men, Majority, Belief

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• 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.

  Norman Borlaug

  Men, Agriculture, Survival

  Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

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

  Wayne Dyer

  Boredom, Use, Way

  Wayne W. Dyer (1977). “Your erroneous zones”

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• To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this the inability to confront that which is.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Able, Unhappiness

  L. Ron Hubbard (1976). “Scientology, a New Slant on Life”, p.174, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• 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.

  Alfred Richard Orage

  Perspective, Observation, Organisms

  Alfred Richard Orage (1954). “Essays and aphorisms”

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• I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters.

  John Cazale

  Character, People, Sometimes

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• In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

  Ezra Pound

  Literature, Pounds, Economic

  Ezra Pound (1952). “Guide to Kulchur”, p.196, New Directions Publishing

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• I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Details, Development, Conscious

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin “The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin”, Library of Alexandria

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• 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.

  Dean Koontz

  Quality, Details, Mouths

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Fear Nothing: A Novel”, p.169, Bantam

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• The inability to listen and to depict in the countenance what others have said has spoiled many a good actress.

  Julia Marlowe

  Actresses, Spoiled, Said

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• If you ask my wife, the biggest fault is my inability around the house. She says the only thing handy about me is that I'm close by. And, I have a terrible memory. I'm bad at saying no. I often double-book. There are a lot of things.

  Hugh Jackman

  Memories, Book, Wife

  "Hugh Jackman Interview REAL STEEL". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 4, 2011.

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• The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11...only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Betrayal, Government, Media

  "Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida". Book by Giovanna Borradori, 2004.

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• Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Communication, Thinking, Errors

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• The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.

  Kenneth Kaunda

  Change, Voice, Growth

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• That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand that no one is playing with marked cards; sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Don't expect to get anything back, don't expect recognition for your efforts, don't expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Complete the circle. Not out of pride, inability or arrogance, but simply because whatever it is no longer fits in your life. Close the door, change the record, clean the house, get rid of the dust. Stop being who you were and become who you are.

  Paulo Coelho

  Pride, Cutting, Winning

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• Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Speech, Tongue, Readiness

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

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  World, Study, Force

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• Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. Envy of others comes from comparing what they have with what the envious person has, rather than the envious person realising they have more than what they could have and certainly more than some others and being grateful. It is really just an inability to get a correct perspective on their lives.

  Diogenes

  Gratitude, Grateful, Iron

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

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Rooms, Problem

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