Incapable Quotes

• The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

  Bruce Lee

  Patterns, Martial Arts, Truth Is

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.223, Tuttle Publishing

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• You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Faith, Hope

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Motivational

  "Science, Philosophy, and Religion" (1940).

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• A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Faith

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• If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Relationship, Solitude, Finding Peace

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• We perceive and interpret the outer world through a set of incredibly fine internal receptors. But we are incapable, by ourselves, of grasping or tweezing out any permanent, sharable figment of it. Practically speaking, we ritually verify what is there, and are disposed to call it reality. But, with photographs, we have concrete proof that we have not been hallucinating all our lives.

  Max Kozloff

  Reality, World, Photograph

  Max Kozloff (1979). “Photography & Fascination: Essays”

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• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• We're an ignorant nation right now. We're not really capable, I do not think, the majority of our people, of making the decisions that have to be made at election time and particularly in the selection of their legislatures and their Congress and the presidency, of course. I don't think we're bright enough to do the job that would preserve our democracy, our republic. I think we're in serious danger.

  Walter Cronkite

  Anchorman, Jobs, Thinking

  "Dolly Parton's Anniversary; Walter Cronkite on Peter Jennings". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. September 30, 2005.

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• The civilization of cities is breeding a new race of monks who have none of the original religious drive towards chastity, but are just incapable of facing the responsibilities of marriage.

  Kylie Tennant

  Religious, Responsibility, Race

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• I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie.

  Busy Philipps

  Lying, Parody, Persons

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mistake, Making Mistakes, Persons

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• What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more rational means of communication.

  Norman Cousins

  Communication, Mean, Men

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• In what touches their social convictions, most persons do not think. The threat of change, with all it suggests to them in the loss of social and economic privilege, alarms so deeply that they are incapable of unprejudiced thought. They seem to themselves to be thinking, with lucidity and fairness, but since they start from the conviction that change must undoubtedly be for the worse or from settled grief at the thought of losing what is old and lovely, they are doing no more than following a logical sequence of ideas from a false premise.

  Storm Jameson

  Grief, Loss, Thinking

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• Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.

  James Callaghan

  Strong, Mistake, Long

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• More than once I was tormented by the thought that if Providence had put me in the place of the incapable of criminal incompetents or scoundrels in our propaganda service, our battle with Destiny would have taken a different turn.

  Adolf Hitler

  Taken, Destiny, Battle

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If your pride leads you to boast,
  you will be doubly guilty,
  because your intelligence will have shown
  that it is incapable of controlling your pride.

  Ibn Hazm

  Wisdom, Islamic, Pride

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• He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Appreciation, Action, Pleasure

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• My father is incapable of showing much affection, or even of carrying on a conversation. I didn't want to have a relationship with him just because he's my blood relative. It would bore me.

  Kurt Cobain

  Father, Blood, Want

  "Kurt Cobain: Lost Interview". Guitar World Interview, kuriakon00.tripod.com. July 22, 1993.

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• If liberals think Iraqis are genetically incapable of pulling off even the most rudimentary form of democracy, why do they believe 50 million Mexicans will magically become good Americans, imbued in the nation's history and culture, upon crossing the Rio Grande? Maybe we should dunk Iraqis in the Rio and see what happens.

  Ann Coulter

  Believe, Thinking, Democracy

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• I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side with violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Violence, Sides, Operations

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.100, Penguin Books India

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• If Euclid's point, though incapable of being drawn by any human agency, has an imperishable value, my picture has its own for mankind to live.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Agency, Euclid

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anthony J. Parel (1997). “Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings”, p.189, Cambridge University Press

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• A worker's capital is inexhaustible, incapable of being stolen, and bound to pay him a generous dividend all the time.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Pay, Stolen, Workers

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart.

  Louis de Bernieres

  God, Religious, Heart

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• I would inquire of reasonable persons whether this principle: Matter is naturally wholly incapable of thought, and this other: I think, therefore I am, are in fact the same in the mind of
  Descartes, and in that of St. Augustine, who said the same thing twelve hundred years before.

  Blaise Pascal

  Thinking, Years, Mind

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.510

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• Let the entire system of government be strengthened, and let the balance of power be drawn up in such a manner that it will be permanent and incapable of decay because of its own tenuity.

  Simon Bolivar

  Government, Balance, Decay

  Simón Bolívar (1951). “Selected Writings: 1810-1822”

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